If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
BILL VAUGHANPerhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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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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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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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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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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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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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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