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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

Bill Vaughan

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
BILL VAUGHAN

Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Best Hoping Worst
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
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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Law Overdue Today
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
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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Country Independent Participation Sovereignty
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
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Amulets Eye Mind
The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Knowing Wise Wonderful
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Believe Fleas Necks
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
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Good Power Public Responsibility
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Decision Developing Real Support
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Goal Hero Men
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Exhausted Feelings Way
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Done Reform Something Way
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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Character Men Wise
They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
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
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
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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Cutting House Names
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
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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Advertising Chaos Essence Speech
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Cleaning Filling Smoking
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
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
BILL VAUGHAN

Elderly Funny Witty

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