How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
BILL VAUGHANIt’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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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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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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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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Your thoughts are making you.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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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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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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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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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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