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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

G. K. Chesterton

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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
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
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
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
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’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session

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