Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
BILL VAUGHANEconomics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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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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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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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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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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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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Letters should be easy and natural.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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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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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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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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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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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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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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How 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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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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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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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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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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