Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
BILL VAUGHANOur court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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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.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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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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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.
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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.
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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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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.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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