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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking
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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Control Everything Future Revelation Seduce Sense
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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Believe Book Experience
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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Doe Political Vices
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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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Decision Developing Real Support
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
The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Knowing Wise Wonderful
Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Discipline Mean Protection
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
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Good Power Public Responsibility
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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Careers Ideas Jobs
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
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
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility
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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Balance Comprehensive Down Thinking

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