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Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHAN

Doe Political Vices
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Age Authority Hours Instrument
A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Names Political School
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Also Close Convincing Distance Evidence Luxury
All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Children Compassion Spiritual
The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Knowing Wise Wonderful
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Evil Other World Worlds
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Great Instinct Truth Worship
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
BILL VAUGHAN

Masters Plans Smoking
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
BILL VAUGHAN

Aberration Borders Country Division Hostile Longer War
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Dog Kings Shoes
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Coming Going Music Real
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
BILL VAUGHAN

Band Drumming Power
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
BILL VAUGHAN

Heart Love Philosophy
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cleaning Filling Smoking
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
BILL VAUGHAN

Expression Kind Simple

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