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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Bill Vaughan

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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Distance Mean Provide Psychoanalysis Reality Society
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Animal Gratitude Hilarious
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Aberration Borders Country Division Hostile Longer War
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Adversity Knows Pleasure
Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Behavior Manners
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Masters Plans Smoking
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Expression Kind Simple
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Contentment Greed Strong
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Movie Stars Thinking
The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Control Everything Future Revelation Seduce Sense
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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Doe House Real
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Age Authority Hours Instrument
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Creative Giving Sublime
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Riches Safety Sea

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