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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

Bill Vaughan

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Coming Going Music Real
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Book Doe Thinking
In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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Funny Inspirational Life
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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Cutting House Names
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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Cops Improved Punishment Television
One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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Grace Gracious Heart Moving Saint
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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Believe Communicate Groups Thinking
Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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Careers Ideas Jobs
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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Bricklayer Bricks Question Same Walked
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Dog Kings Shoes
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Cleaning Filling Smoking
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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Doe Political Vices
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
BILL VAUGHAN

Discipline Sensible Sports

What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

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