Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
BILL VAUGHANThese are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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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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Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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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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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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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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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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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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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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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.
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