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    A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.

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    A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

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    After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

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    A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

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    A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.

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    A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

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    Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

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    Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

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    Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

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    Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

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    Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

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    Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.

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    Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

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    If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

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    In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

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    It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.

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    Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

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    Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

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    Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

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    One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

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    Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

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    Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.

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    Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

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    Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

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    Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

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    Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

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    The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

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    The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

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    The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

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    The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

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    The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

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    The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

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    The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

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    There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

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    The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

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    Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

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    We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

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    We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

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    We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

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    We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

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    When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

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    When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

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    Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.

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    Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

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    Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.