What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
BILL VAUGHANThe wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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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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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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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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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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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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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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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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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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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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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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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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