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Bill Vaughan

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

Elderly Funny Witty
The 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.
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Character Forgiveness United States
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Book Countries Country World
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
BILL VAUGHAN

Creative Giving Sublime
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Among Cannibal Vegetarians
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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Band Drumming Power
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Dams Eagles May
Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Conclusion Research Results Reviews Show
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Different Horse Smell
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
A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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Breath Death Ghost Learning More
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
BILL VAUGHAN

Differences Reason Sound
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
BILL VAUGHAN

Axes Mean Phases
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Differences House Thinking

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