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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.

G. K. Chesterton

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
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
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
[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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking

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