Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
BILL VAUGHANShow me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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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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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.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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