I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
BILL VAUGHANManagers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.
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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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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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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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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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