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.
BILL VAUGHANIf 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?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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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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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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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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