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Bill Vaughan

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Amended Constitution Country Rules
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Age Authority Hours Instrument
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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Creative Giving Sublime
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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Conclusion Research Results Reviews Show
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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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Differences Reason Sound
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Amulets Eye Mind
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Age Book Reading Sufficient
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Christmas Motivational New Year
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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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Invited Irritating Party
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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Progress Stars Worry
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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Control Everything Future Revelation Seduce Sense
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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Knowing Wise Wonderful
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Different Horse Smell
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Book Ideas People

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