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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
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 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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
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
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 belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself

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