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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

Bill Vaughan

There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Differences Reason Sound
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
In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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Funny Inspirational Life
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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Beneath Early Expanse Feet Limitless Morning
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Elderly Funny Witty
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Conversation People Pocket Watches
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
The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Christianity Convincing Shared
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 groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Creative Giving Sublime
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
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Masters Plans Smoking
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Firsts Modesty Obstacl
No one can bring to God what you can.
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Bring God Uniqueness
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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Dark Funny Teeth
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
Your thoughts are making you.
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Making Person Thought
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Living Mean Work
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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Conceit Discerning Endowed Eye Himself Veils
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

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