The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
BILL VAUGHANOne 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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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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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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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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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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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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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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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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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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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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