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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.

Bill Vaughan

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Maturity Permission Psychological
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
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
Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Discipline Mean Protection
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
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
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
I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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Blessed Islamic War
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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High Station Tedious Unmoved Unreasonable
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Behavior Manners
All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Children Compassion Spiritual
Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Behavior Manners
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Believe Fleas Necks
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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Brave England Heart
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Developer Fun Home Names Street
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
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Humans May Plans
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
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
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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Fitness Sarcasm Sarcastic
Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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Ghost Speak Spokes
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
If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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Couple House May
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
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
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Boredom Causes Revolution
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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