Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
BILL VAUGHANThe 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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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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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 same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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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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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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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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It 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.
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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