I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
BILL VAUGHANThere must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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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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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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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.
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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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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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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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