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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
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
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 things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
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
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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition

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