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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Bill Vaughan

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.
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Attention Four Result Upset
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
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Differences Reason Sound
No one can bring to God what you can.
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Bring God Uniqueness
I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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Blessed Islamic War
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Alternatives Behaviour Mean
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Admirer Followers Virtue
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
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
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Elderly Funny Witty
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
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
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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Discipline Sensible Sports
I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Government Thursday
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Beautiful Children Jobs Manager

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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