In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
BILL VAUGHANWhat 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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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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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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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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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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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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