Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
BILL VAUGHANThe SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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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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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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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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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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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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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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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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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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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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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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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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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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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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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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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.
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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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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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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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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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