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.
BILL VAUGHANAnd this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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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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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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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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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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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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