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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Bill Vaughan

If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Enemy Lust Most
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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Heart Love Philosophy
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Hero Milion Murder Villain
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
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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Book Ideas People
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Gas Home Outdoors Wonderful World
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Body Long Sweet Weight
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Behaviour Littles People
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Bird Century Firsts God Next
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
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
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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Look Perfume Showers Struggle

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

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