There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
BILL VAUGHANEvery 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?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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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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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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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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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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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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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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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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