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!
BILL VAUGHANho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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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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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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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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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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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?
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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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.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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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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