Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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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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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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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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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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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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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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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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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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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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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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