There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
BILL VAUGHANI’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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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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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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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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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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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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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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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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