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.
BILL VAUGHANThe more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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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 finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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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.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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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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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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