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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
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
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 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
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself

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