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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
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
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
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
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People

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