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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Bill Vaughan

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
BILL VAUGHAN

Humor Law Moving
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
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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Distance Mean Provide Psychoanalysis Reality Society
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Blessed Islamic War
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
BILL VAUGHAN

Aberration Borders Country Division Hostile Longer War
Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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Case Event Strong
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
BILL VAUGHAN

Animal Chocolate Cows
Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
BILL VAUGHAN

Conclusion Research Results Reviews Show
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
BILL VAUGHAN

Law Overdue Today
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
BILL VAUGHAN

Christmas Ideal Trouble
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
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
BILL VAUGHAN

Baseball Parking Space Umpires
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
BILL VAUGHAN

Beautiful Children Jobs Manager
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
BILL VAUGHAN

Frogs Ocean Understanding
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
BILL VAUGHAN

Contentment Greed Strong

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