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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
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
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
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence

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