Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.
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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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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
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Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque
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Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
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I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
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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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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
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A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
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It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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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 whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.