I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
BILL VAUGHANAt bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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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.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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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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