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.
BILL VAUGHANThe 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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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.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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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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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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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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On 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.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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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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