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.
BILL VAUGHANWhat ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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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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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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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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No one can bring to God what you can.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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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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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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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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