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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Bill Vaughan

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
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Men Mirror Running Water
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
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Character Fire Gillitering Heaven Martyrs Massive Strongest
There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
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
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Enemy Lust Most
What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Conclusion Research Results Reviews Show
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
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
We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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Big Deal Factor Risk Several Way
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
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
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

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