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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

Bill Vaughan

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
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
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
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Freedom Funny Humorous
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Adversity Knows Pleasure
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
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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High Station Tedious Unmoved Unreasonable
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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Cheerfulness Endured Forgotten Harmful Lesson Remember
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Admirer Followers Virtue
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
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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Also Close Convincing Distance Evidence Luxury
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
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Masters Plans Smoking
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 finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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Atheism Fingerprint God

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

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