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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

G. K. Chesterton

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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
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
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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