Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?
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All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
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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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It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
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I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.