Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
BILL VAUGHANAristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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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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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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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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A nation has character only when it is free.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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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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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.
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