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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

Bill Vaughan

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Countries Country World
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Book Ideas People
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
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
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
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
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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God Soul Thrones
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
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Amulets Eye Mind
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
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Evil People Weakness
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Goal Hero Men
What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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Bricklayer Bricks Question Same Walked
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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Golf Sunday Views
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Important Organization Work

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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