The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHANWhether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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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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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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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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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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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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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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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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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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