It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
BILL VAUGHANYou have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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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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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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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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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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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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No one can bring to God what you can.
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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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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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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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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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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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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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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 old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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