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

G. K. Chesterton

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
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
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
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
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
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
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 word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time

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