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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.

Bill Vaughan

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Gossip Grows Myth
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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Atheism Fingerprint God
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
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
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adversity Art Books Threaten
There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
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
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Every Flattery Man Woman
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
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 perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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Look Perfume Showers Struggle
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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Choices Kids Mcdonalds Themselves
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Best Hoping Worst
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Humans May Plans
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive

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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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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