Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
BILL VAUGHANThe price of power is responsibility for the public good.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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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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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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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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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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