The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
BILL VAUGHANEven pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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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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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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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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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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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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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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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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