When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
BILL VAUGHANWhen gossip grows old it becomes myth.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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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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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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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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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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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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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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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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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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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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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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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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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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