Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
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Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.
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What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
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You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!
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Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.
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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.
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In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.
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That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.