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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.

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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
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
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition

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