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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

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
[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
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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

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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