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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder

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