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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

Bill Vaughan

The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
BILL VAUGHAN

Said Salvation Saved
Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Comparison Deer Pale
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.
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Especially Lying Maturity Men Young
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
BILL VAUGHAN

Adversity Knows Pleasure
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Grasp Hands Power Ties
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
BILL VAUGHAN

Collision Myth Real
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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Control Everything Future Revelation Seduce Sense
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Boredom Causes Revolution
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Blessed Islamic War
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Alternatives Behaviour Mean
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
BILL VAUGHAN

Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.
BILL VAUGHAN

Attention Four Result Upset
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Expand Itself Knows Universe
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
BILL VAUGHAN

Age Long Years

What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

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