Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.
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My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing better-performing circuits sooner and faster. Until now, customers have had to deal with a delicate balance of compromises when producing advanced OPC-enabled circuits, including trading accuracy for speed. Tachyon OPC+ breaks free from these compromises.
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Goal achievement is hero's work.
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
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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. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.
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If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
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A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
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An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.
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On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
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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?"