Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
BILL VAUGHANA three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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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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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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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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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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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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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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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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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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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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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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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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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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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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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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