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.
BILL VAUGHANOccasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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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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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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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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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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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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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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