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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

Bill Vaughan

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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Humor Law Moving
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
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
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Differences House Thinking
Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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Ongoing Salvation Transformation
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 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
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Best Hoping Worst
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Behavior Manners
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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Doe House Real
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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Conceit Discerning Endowed Eye Himself Veils
We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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Caution Found Sides
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Grasp Hands Power Ties
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

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