A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
BILL VAUGHANThe ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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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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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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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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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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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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