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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun

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