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.
BILL VAUGHANThere is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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