Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
BILL VAUGHANHow 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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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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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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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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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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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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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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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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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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