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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.

Bill Vaughan

Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
BILL VAUGHAN

Ghost Speak Spokes
And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Discussion Hence Intellectual Strength Theological
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Deeds Friendly God Noble
The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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Healing Movement Rediscover Sunlight Work
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
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
BILL VAUGHAN

July Patriotic Real
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
What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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Again Back Long Mashmallow Vomit Weight
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
Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Maturity Permission Psychological
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Chance Nostalgia Safe
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Decision Developing Real Support
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHAN

Boredom Causes Revolution
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cutting House Names

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