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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

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 VAUGHAN

Distance Mean Provide Psychoanalysis Reality Society
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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Again Back Long Mashmallow Vomit Weight
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Experience Thinking
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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Book Depend Fun Reading
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Conversation People Pocket Watches
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
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
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Evil Other World Worlds
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
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Developer Fun Home Names Street
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Humans May Plans
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
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Kind Pedestrian Two
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Men Mirror Running Water
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom

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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