It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
BILL VAUGHANIn the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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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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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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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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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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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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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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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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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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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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