Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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There are people in many other states who are cheering us.
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The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
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Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
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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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I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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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 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 dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.