I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
BILL VAUGHANThere is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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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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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!
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If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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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 tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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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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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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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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