Bill Vaughan Quotes

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• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

  Bill Vaughan

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• The Four Rules of Life:
  1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Upset, Attention, Four

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• People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

  Bill Vaughan

  Education, Learning, Talking

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• You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Ocean, Understanding, Frogs

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• We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hilarious, Gratitude, Animal

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• If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Hater, Witty

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• It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Poor Nations, Would Be

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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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Thinking, Groups

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• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

  Bill Vaughan

  Character, Fire, Heaven

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• The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Eye, Veils, Conceit

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• All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spiritual, Children, Compassion

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• Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

  Bill Vaughan

  Party, Irritating, Invited

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• Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

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• The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Names, House

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• A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.

  Bill Vaughan

  Beautiful, Running, Sex

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• Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

  Bill Vaughan

  Army, Answers, Needed

  Bill Vaughan (1967). “Half the Battle”

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• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Whales, Ants, Fine

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• One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

  Bill Vaughan

  Feelings, Way, Exhausted

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• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sarcastic, Fitness, Sarcasm

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• Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Book, Experience

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• Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Agony, Organization

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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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Reading, Age

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• The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

  Bill Vaughan

  Christianity, Convincing

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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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Book, Reading

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