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.
BILL VAUGHANProgress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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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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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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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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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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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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