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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
Bill Vaughan
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan
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Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
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Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.
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A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.
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When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Bill Vaughan
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The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
Bill Vaughan -
Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
Bill Vaughan -
We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
Bill Vaughan
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It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.
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Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
Bill Vaughan