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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back

Bill Vaughan

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adversity Art Books Threaten
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations
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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Dog Kings Shoes
All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Children Compassion Spiritual
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Done Reform Something Way
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Important Organization Work
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Experience Thinking
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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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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July Patriotic Real
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
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Believe Fleas Necks
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Expand Itself Knows Universe
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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Advertising Chaos Essence Speech
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Animal Gratitude Hilarious
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Humans May Plans
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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Cutting House Names
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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Believe Civilization Luxury
You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Climb Deep Thought Effort
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Boredom Causes Revolution
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
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Conversation People Pocket Watches
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Analysis Paralysis Suffer
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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Choices Kids Mcdonalds Themselves
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Differences Reason Sound
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way

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