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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.

Bill Vaughan

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Effort Funny Humor
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Differences Issues Strong
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Dams Eagles May
When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Amended Constitution Country Rules
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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July Patriotic Real
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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Baby Children Happiness
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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High Station Tedious Unmoved Unreasonable
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Hero Milion Murder Villain
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Claims Country God Mankind
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Every Flattery Man Woman
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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Discipline Sensible Sports
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Character Fire Gillitering Heaven Martyrs Massive Strongest
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Events Future Life Water

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