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 VAUGHANThere 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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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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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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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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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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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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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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