Bill Vaughan Quotes
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
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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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The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.
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It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
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The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
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Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?
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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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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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The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.
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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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Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
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Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
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The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.