Bill Vaughan Quotes
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.
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I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.
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Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
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God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
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Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
