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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.

Bill Vaughan

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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Humor Law Moving
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Age Book Reading Sufficient
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Behavior Manners
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Expand Itself Knows Universe
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Movie Stars 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
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
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Book Countries Country World
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Invited Irritating Party
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
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
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Amulets Eye Mind
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
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Dams Eagles May
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Gas Home Outdoors Wonderful World

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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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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