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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

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
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 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
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
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Blushes Modesty Rainbow
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adversity Art Books Threaten
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
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Firsts Modesty Obstacl
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Among Cannibal Vegetarians
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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Brave England Heart
No one can bring to God what you can.
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Bring God Uniqueness
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
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Comparison Deer Pale
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

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