The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHANThe 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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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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.
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