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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

Bill Vaughan

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Crime Dark Proof Window
American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Bible Country Culture More Part Suffering Thinking
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Chance Nostalgia Safe
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Men Mirror Running Water
The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Control Everything Future Revelation Seduce Sense
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Goal Hero Men
Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Case Event Strong
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
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Dog Kings Shoes
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
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Aberration Borders Country Division Hostile Longer War
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
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
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Coming Going Music Real
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way
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

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