The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHANThe best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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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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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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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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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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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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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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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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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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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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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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