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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Bill Vaughan

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
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
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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Creating People Taxation
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
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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Cops Improved Punishment Television
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Book Ideas People
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
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 most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Enemy Lust Most
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
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Cleaning Filling Smoking
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
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Chance Nostalgia Safe

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

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