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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Bill Vaughan

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Dog Kings Shoes
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Character Forgiveness United States
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Age Book Reading Sufficient
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Band Drumming Power
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Evil People Weakness
We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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Caution Found Sides
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
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Animal Chocolate Cows
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Behavior Coats
A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Names Political School
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Men Mirror Running Water
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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Believe Civilization Luxury
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Expression Kind Simple

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

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