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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

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
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Analysis Paralysis Suffer
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Adversity Knows Pleasure
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Experience Thinking
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 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
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Good Power Public Responsibility
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
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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Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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Golf Sunday Views
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Expression Kind Simple
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Garden Gardener Weed
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Animal Chocolate Cows
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
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
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
I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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Allies Computer Firsts
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Book Doe Thinking
A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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Breath Death Ghost Learning More
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
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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Christmas Family Happy Inspirational
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Movie Stars Thinking
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
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Beautiful Children Jobs Manager
A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Names Political School

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