Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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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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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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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
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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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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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There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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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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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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The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
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Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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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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Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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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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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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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
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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.