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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

Bill Vaughan

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
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Developer Fun Home Names Street
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
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Failure Nothing Philosophy Resolve Wise
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
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
One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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Grace Gracious Heart Moving Saint
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking
It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Body Long Sweet Weight
All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Children Compassion Spiritual
The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Christianity Convincing Shared
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
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Kind Pedestrian Two
Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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Beneath Early Expanse Feet Limitless Morning
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
Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Crime Dark Proof Window

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