Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
BILL VAUGHANWhen it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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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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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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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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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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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.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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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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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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