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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.

Bill Vaughan

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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Progress Stars Worry
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Age Authority Hours Instrument
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
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Character Forgiveness United States
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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July Patriotic Real
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Book Doe Thinking
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Chance Nostalgia Safe
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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Cops Improved Punishment Television
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
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Christmas Motivational New Year
Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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Ghost Speak Spokes
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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Discipline Sensible Sports
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Distance Mean Provide Psychoanalysis Reality Society
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
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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Fitness Sarcasm Sarcastic

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.

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