Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
BILL VAUGHANA real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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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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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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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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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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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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The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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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.
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ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
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