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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Bill Vaughan

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
BILL VAUGHAN

Baby Children Happiness
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

Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
BILL VAUGHAN

Details Men Patience
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
BILL VAUGHAN

Highest Long Men Race Respond
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Done Reform Something Way
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
BILL VAUGHAN

Adversity Knows Pleasure
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
BILL VAUGHAN

Conceit Discerning Endowed Eye Himself Veils
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
BILL VAUGHAN

Expand Itself Knows Universe
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Doe Thinking
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
BILL VAUGHAN

Differences Issues Strong
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
BILL VAUGHAN

Living Mean Work
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
BILL VAUGHAN

Believe Communicate Groups Thinking
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
BILL VAUGHAN

Collision Myth Real
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
BILL VAUGHAN

Character Men Wise
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
BILL VAUGHAN

High Station Tedious Unmoved Unreasonable
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
BILL VAUGHAN

Exhausted Feelings Way

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