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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.

Bill Vaughan

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Book Countries Country World
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Age Authority Hours Instrument
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
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
If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Heaven Pity Way
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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Balance Comprehensive Down Thinking
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Decision Developing Real Support
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
I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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Blessed Islamic War
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
Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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Along Busy Early Morning Walk Wonder
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
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
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Alternatives Behaviour Mean
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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