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Bill Vaughan

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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Conceit Discerning Endowed Eye Himself Veils
God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
BILL VAUGHAN

Fighting God Victory
Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Depend Fun Reading
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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Believe Communicate Groups Thinking
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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Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Garden Gardener Weed
Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Book Ideas People
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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Common Hands People Sense
American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Bible Country Culture More Part Suffering Thinking
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Gas Home Outdoors Wonderful World
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Important Organization Work
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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Best Hoping Worst
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Boredom Causes Revolution
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cleaning Filling Smoking

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