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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
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
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
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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 golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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 a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word

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