Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
BILL VAUGHANMiddle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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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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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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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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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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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.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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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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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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