Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.
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A silly row which got out of hand.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
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For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.
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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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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
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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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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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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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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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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.