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 VAUGHANOne advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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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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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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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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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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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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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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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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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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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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