The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
BILL VAUGHANIf 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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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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