Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
BILL VAUGHANMost 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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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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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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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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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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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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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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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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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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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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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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