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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

G. K. Chesterton

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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society

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