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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

Bill Vaughan

If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
BILL VAUGHAN

Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
BILL VAUGHAN

Every Flattery Man Woman
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cutting House Names
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
BILL VAUGHAN

Behavior Manners
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Failure Nothing Philosophy Resolve Wise
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?
BILL VAUGHAN

Doe House Real
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Gas Home Outdoors Wonderful World
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
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
BILL VAUGHAN

Atheism Atheist God Positive
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
BILL VAUGHAN

Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
BILL VAUGHAN

Good Power Public Responsibility
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Doe Thinking
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
BILL VAUGHAN

Especially Lying Maturity Men Young
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
BILL VAUGHAN

Christmas Motivational New Year
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Grace Gracious Heart Moving Saint

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