What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
BILL VAUGHANIn 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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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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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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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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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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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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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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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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