Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
BILL VAUGHANThere are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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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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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 best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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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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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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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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