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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

G. K. Chesterton

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman

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