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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

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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 whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
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
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try

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