The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
BILL VAUGHANWork is the means of living, but it is not living.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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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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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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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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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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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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