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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Bill Vaughan

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Band Drumming Power
Your thoughts are making you.
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Making Person Thought
He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Desire Individual Needs
Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Discipline Mean Protection
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
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.
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Careers Ideas Jobs
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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Believe Book Experience
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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Christmas Family Happy Inspirational
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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Fitness Sarcasm Sarcastic
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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Contentment Greed Strong
ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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Abode Dreaming Journey Road Titred
Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Maturity Permission Psychological
God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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Fighting God Victory
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Kind Pedestrian Two
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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Humor Law Moving
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Every Flattery Man Woman
Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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Age Long Years
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Different Horse Smell
The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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Creating People Taxation
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Dams Eagles May
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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Atheism Fingerprint God
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Expression Kind Simple
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

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