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 VAUGHANPipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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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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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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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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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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