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.
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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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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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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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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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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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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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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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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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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