Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .
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Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
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I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
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In adversity man is saved by hope.
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Where God is, all agree.
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
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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?
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According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .