When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
BILL VAUGHANBeauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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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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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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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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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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