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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Bill Vaughan

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
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Events Future Life Water
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Behavior Manners
I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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Blessed Islamic War
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Enemy Lust Most
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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Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Failure Nothing Philosophy Resolve Wise
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Behavior Coats
Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Maturity Permission Psychological
Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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Age Long Years
I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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Allies Computer Firsts
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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Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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