Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
BILL VAUGHANGod, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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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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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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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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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
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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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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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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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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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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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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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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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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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