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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

Bill Vaughan

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
BILL VAUGHAN

Beautiful Children Jobs Manager
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?
BILL VAUGHAN

Couple House May
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Failure Nothing Philosophy Resolve Wise
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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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
BILL VAUGHAN

Details Men Patience
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
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
Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
BILL VAUGHAN

Building Up Country Democracy
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
BILL VAUGHAN

Riches Safety Sea
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
BILL VAUGHAN

Character Forgiveness United States
Middle 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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Age Long Years
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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Expression Kind Simple
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Character Fire Gillitering Heaven Martyrs Massive Strongest
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
The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHAN

Creating People Taxation

The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

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