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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.

Bill Vaughan

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Amulets Eye Mind
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Boredom Causes Revolution
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Claims Country God Mankind
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
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Great Instinct Truth Worship
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Creative Giving Sublime
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
There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Behavior Coats
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
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Different Horse Smell
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Animal Chocolate Cows
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
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Baseball Parking Space Umpires

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