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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Bill Vaughan

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
BILL VAUGHAN

Band Drumming Power
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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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
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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Freedom Funny Humorous
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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Law Overdue Today
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
BILL VAUGHAN

Atheism Atheist God Positive
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.
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Contentment Greed Strong
These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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Graduation Jersey Nothing Recall Remember
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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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHAN

Doe Political Vices
Contraries are cured by contraries.
BILL VAUGHAN

Behavior Manners
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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Again Back Long Mashmallow Vomit Weight
If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Animal Chocolate Cows
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
BILL VAUGHAN

Discipline Sensible Sports
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
BILL VAUGHAN

Bait Beauty Grace
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
BILL VAUGHAN

Christmas Motivational New Year

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

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