Live constructively and live optimistically.
BILL VAUGHANOn 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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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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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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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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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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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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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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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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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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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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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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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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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 best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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