The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
BILL VAUGHANEvery woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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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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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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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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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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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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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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I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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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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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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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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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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