Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
BILL VAUGHANNothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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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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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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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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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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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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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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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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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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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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