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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

Bill Vaughan

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Behaviour Littles People
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Developer Fun Home Names Street
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Distance Mean Provide Psychoanalysis Reality Society
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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Axes Mean Phases
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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Doe Political Vices
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
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 easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Book Doe Thinking
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
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 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
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
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Dinner Earth Eating
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Coming Going Music Real
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
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

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

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