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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Bill Vaughan

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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Character Forgiveness United States
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
BILL VAUGHAN

Age Book Reading Sufficient
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Developer Fun Home Names Street
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
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Analysis Paralysis Suffer
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
BILL VAUGHAN

Differences Holy Ignore Long People
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
BILL VAUGHAN

Exhausted Feelings Way
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
BILL VAUGHAN

Distance Mean Provide Psychoanalysis Reality Society
He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Desire Individual Needs
When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Amended Constitution Country Rules
Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
BILL VAUGHAN

Ghost Speak Spokes
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
BILL VAUGHAN

Conceit Pride Thinking
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
BILL VAUGHAN

Decision Developing Real Support
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
BILL VAUGHAN

Dinner Earth Eating
Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
BILL VAUGHAN

Crime Dark Proof Window
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
BILL VAUGHAN

Heart Love Philosophy

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