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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
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 thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom

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