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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.

Bill Vaughan

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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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Baby Children Happiness
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
BILL VAUGHAN

Differences Reason Sound
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Experience Thinking
Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
BILL VAUGHAN

Crime Dark Proof Window
The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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Disruption relief Struggle
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
BILL VAUGHAN

Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
BILL VAUGHAN

Beautiful Children Jobs Manager
Contraries are cured by contraries.
BILL VAUGHAN

Behavior Manners
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Masters Plans Smoking
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Cleaning Filling Smoking
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Failure Nothing Philosophy Resolve Wise
What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Heaven Pity Way
Aristocracy 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.
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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
BILL VAUGHAN

Bricklayer Bricks Question Same Walked
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
BILL VAUGHAN

Band Drumming Power
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
BILL VAUGHAN

Garden Gardener Weed
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
BILL VAUGHAN

Progress Stars Worry
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
BILL VAUGHAN

Frogs Ocean Understanding
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
BILL VAUGHAN

Grasp Hands Power Ties
Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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End Much World
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
BILL VAUGHAN

Educational Funny Money
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Balance Comprehensive Down Thinking
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
BILL VAUGHAN

God Soul Thrones
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
BILL VAUGHAN

Discipline Sensible Sports

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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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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