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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.

Bill Vaughan

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
BILL VAUGHAN

Dinner Earth Eating
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
BILL VAUGHAN

Important Organization Work
Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
BILL VAUGHAN

Along Busy Early Morning Walk Wonder
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
BILL VAUGHAN

Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
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!
BILL VAUGHAN

Believe Civilization Luxury
A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
BILL VAUGHAN

Breath Death Ghost Learning More
A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
BILL VAUGHAN

Names Political School
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
BILL VAUGHAN

Choices Kids Mcdonalds Themselves
Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
BILL VAUGHAN

Crime Dark Proof Window
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
BILL VAUGHAN

Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
BILL VAUGHAN

Highest Long Men Race Respond
The 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?
BILL VAUGHAN

Heart Love Philosophy
One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
BILL VAUGHAN

Grace Gracious Heart Moving Saint
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
BILL VAUGHAN

Chance Nostalgia Safe
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
BILL VAUGHAN

Baseball Parking Space Umpires

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