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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

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
A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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Breath Death Ghost Learning More
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
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Among Cannibal Vegetarians
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
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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Especially Lying Maturity Men Young
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
When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Heard Want Woman
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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Law Overdue Today
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
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Animal Chocolate Cows
We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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Caution Found Sides
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Differences Issues Strong
Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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Always Healing Rediscovery

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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