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“By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.”
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“All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.”

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It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

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“Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.”

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“Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.”

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“Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.”

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“If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.”

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“There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.”

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There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

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“Freedom is knowing who you really are.”

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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

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“Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.”

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“Contraries are cured by contraries.”

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“The highest duty is to respect authority.”

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“The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.”

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My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

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“Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.”

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“I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.”

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“American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. 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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“It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.”

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“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance
leading the parade with a big blare of a band
the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.”

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“Everything pales in comparison to deer.”

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“There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.”

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“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.”

— Bill Vaughan

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

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“When gossip grows old it becomes myth.”

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“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.”

— Bill Vaughan

“Dark windows are often a very clear proof.”

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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.

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“Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.”

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Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

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“Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.”

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“Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.”

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“As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.”

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“There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.”

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“No one can bring to God what you can.”

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“The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.”

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“In adversity man is saved by hope.”

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Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers ...

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“Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.”

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“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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“Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers.
Give and spend,
and be sure that God will send;
for only in giving and spending
do you fulfill the object of His sending.”

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“Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.”

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“You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.”

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“Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join.”