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In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Bill Vaughan

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
BILL VAUGHAN

Balance Comprehensive Down Thinking
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Chance Nostalgia Safe
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
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
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Experience Thinking
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Differences Issues Strong
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Invited Irritating Party
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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Cutting House Names
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
Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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Ghost Speak Spokes
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
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Done Reform Something Way

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