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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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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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
[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
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time

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