The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHANThe suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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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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The 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.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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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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