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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan

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
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
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Behaviour Littles People
If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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Couple House May
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
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 learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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Heart Love Philosophy
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
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
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Heaven Pity Way
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Firsts Modesty Obstacl
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Educational Funny Money
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
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Evil Other World Worlds
I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Government Thursday
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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Collision Myth Real

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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