The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHANWhere are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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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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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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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.
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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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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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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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