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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

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
On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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Common Hands People Sense
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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God Soul Thrones
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Great Instinct Truth Worship
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
And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Discussion Hence Intellectual Strength Theological
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Living Mean Work
The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Said Salvation Saved
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
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Best Hoping Worst
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Dinner Earth Eating
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
We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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Achieve Momentum Order
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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Baby Children Happiness
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
What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Again Back Long Mashmallow Vomit Weight
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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Heart Love Philosophy
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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Highest Long Men Race Respond
Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Case Event Strong
God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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Fighting God Victory
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Differences Reason Sound
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Educational Funny Money
It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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Coming Happens Jesus
Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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Beneath Early Expanse Feet Limitless Morning
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
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
If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped

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