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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.

Bill Vaughan

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
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Living Mean Work
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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Axes Mean Phases
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Bait Beauty Grace
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Great Instinct Truth Worship
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
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Distance Mean Provide Psychoanalysis Reality Society
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
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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Atheism Fingerprint God
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Conversation People Pocket Watches
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Bible Country Culture More Part Suffering Thinking
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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Especially Lying Maturity Men Young
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Dams Eagles May
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Effort Funny Humor

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