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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Bill Vaughan

Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
BILL VAUGHAN

Discipline Mean Protection
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Aberration Borders Country Division Hostile Longer War
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
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Experience Thinking
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
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
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
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Behavior Manners
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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Doe House Real
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Dinner Earth Eating
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
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Claims Country God Mankind
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Baseball Parking Space Umpires
Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Maturity Permission Psychological
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Grasp Hands Power Ties

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