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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Bill Vaughan

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Maturity Permission Psychological
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHAN

Boredom Causes Revolution
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Dog Kings Shoes
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.
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Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Baseball Parking Space Umpires
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.
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Baby Children Happiness
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.
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Differences Issues Strong
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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Allies Computer Firsts
When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Amended Constitution Country Rules
Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Case Event Strong
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
BILL VAUGHAN

Axes Mean Phases
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.
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Conceit Discerning Endowed Eye Himself Veils
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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Contentment Greed Strong
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Believe Fleas Necks
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHAN

Doe Political Vices
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking

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