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Bill Vaughan

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHAN

Boredom Causes Revolution
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
BILL VAUGHAN

Every Flattery Man Woman
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Developer Fun Home Names Street
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
BILL VAUGHAN

Dams Eagles May
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Creative Giving Sublime
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
BILL VAUGHAN

Animal Gratitude Hilarious
The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Christianity Convincing Shared
Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
BILL VAUGHAN

Along Busy Early Morning Walk Wonder
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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Bird Century Firsts God Next
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Different Horse Smell
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
BILL VAUGHAN

Claims Country God Mankind
If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Great Instinct Truth Worship
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cutting House Names
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Done Fascinating Two Way Wonderful

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