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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.

Bill Vaughan

In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
BILL VAUGHAN

Funny Inspirational Life
Contraries are cured by contraries.
BILL VAUGHAN

Behavior Manners
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
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
BILL VAUGHAN

Effort Funny Humor
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Careers Ideas Jobs
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
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
BILL VAUGHAN

Decision Developing Real Support
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
BILL VAUGHAN

Action Surely Talking
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
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
BILL VAUGHAN

Age Authority Hours Instrument
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
BILL VAUGHAN

Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Believe Communicate Groups Thinking
It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
BILL VAUGHAN

Coming Happens Jesus
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
BILL VAUGHAN

Riches Safety Sea

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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