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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bill Vaughan

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
BILL VAUGHAN

Conversation People Pocket Watches
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Kind Pedestrian Two
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Bait Beauty Grace
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
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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Look Perfume Showers Struggle
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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Especially Lying Maturity Men Young
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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Country Independent Participation Sovereignty
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Grasp Hands Power Ties
If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Differences House Thinking
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
BILL VAUGHAN

Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
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
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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Also Close Convincing Distance Evidence Luxury
American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Bible Country Culture More Part Suffering Thinking
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Behavior Coats
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Coming Going Music Real

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

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