Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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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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Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.