Live constructively and live optimistically.
BILL VAUGHANThe price of power is responsibility for the public good.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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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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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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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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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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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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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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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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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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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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