If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
BILL VAUGHANHe knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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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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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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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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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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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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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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