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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Bill Vaughan

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Done Reform Something Way
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Book Ideas People
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Cleaning Filling Smoking
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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Highest Long Men Race Respond
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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Conceit Discerning Endowed Eye Himself Veils
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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Atheism Fingerprint God
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
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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Doe House Real
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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Humor Law Moving
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Among Cannibal Vegetarians
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Freedom Funny Humorous
In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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Funny Inspirational Life
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Aberration Borders Country Division Hostile Longer War
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations

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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