When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
BILL VAUGHANNow that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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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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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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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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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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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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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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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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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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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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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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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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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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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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