Bill Vaughan Quotes
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.
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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
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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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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
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I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.