Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
BILL VAUGHANThe learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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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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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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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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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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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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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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