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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

Bill Vaughan

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
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
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.
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Bricklayer Bricks Question Same Walked
What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Again Back Long Mashmallow Vomit Weight
Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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Age Long Years
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Baseball Parking Space Umpires
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Garden Gardener Weed
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Contentment Greed Strong
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
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Events Future Life Water
And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Discussion Hence Intellectual Strength Theological
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Expand Itself Knows Universe
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
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 pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

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