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Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Bernard Williams

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
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Rose Success Victory
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
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Dream Sunset Watches
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.
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Action Belief Illusion
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn’t.
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Criticism Critics Friendship
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.
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Harder Less Like Tranquility
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
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Half Lying Truth
Laziness has many disguises. Soon “winter doldrums” will become “spring fever.”
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Fever Spring Winter
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
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Fire Flames Genius
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
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Democratic Snowstorms Things
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
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April Lord Spring
You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.
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Foolhardy Knows Mature
People who say, ‘Let the chips fall where they may,’ usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
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Chip Fall May People
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.
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Average Discover Father Men
Americans are optimists. They hope they’ll be wealthy someday – and they’re positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
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Emptiness Optimism Optimistic
Few things move as quietly as the future.
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Life Moving Queletly
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
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Humor Stranger World

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

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