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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.

Bill Vaughan

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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adversity Art Books Threaten
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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Choices Kids Mcdonalds Themselves
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Dinner Earth Eating
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
BILL VAUGHAN

Nations Nice Poor Would Be
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Again Back Long Mashmallow Vomit Weight
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Differences House Thinking
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility
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
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations
Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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Always Healing Rediscovery
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Firsts Modesty Obstacl
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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Brave England Heart

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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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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