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.
BILL VAUGHANSuburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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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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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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