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.
BILL VAUGHANI 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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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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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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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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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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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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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 suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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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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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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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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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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