One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
BILL VAUGHANIt would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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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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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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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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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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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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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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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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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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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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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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