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.
BILL VAUGHANI count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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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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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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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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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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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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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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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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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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