Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
BILL VAUGHANIt might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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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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Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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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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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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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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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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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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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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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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