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.

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  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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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.

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  Education, Learning, Talking

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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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  Years, Long, Age

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• There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

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  Differences, Sound, Reason

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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.

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  Upset, Attention, Four

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• Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

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  God, Morning, Waiting

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• ...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building:
  He approached the first and asked, What are you doing?
  Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks!
  He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
  The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living.
  He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing?
  The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral.
  At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?

  Bill Vaughan

  Feel Better, Men, Thinking

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• Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

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  Hoping For The Best, Worst

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• Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

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  Thinking, Experience

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

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  Real, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

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  Followers, Virtue, Admirer

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

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  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.

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  Cutting, Names, House

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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.

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  Hilarious, Gratitude, Animal

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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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  Believe, Thinking, Groups

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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.

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  Funny, Hater, Witty

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• The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

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  Clay, Sun

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

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  Ocean, Understanding, Frogs

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• Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

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  Heaven, Way, Hardest

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• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

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  Funny, Freedom, Humorous

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• Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

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  People, Evil, Weakness

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• Your thoughts are making you.

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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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  Moving, Humor, Law

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

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  Feelings, Way, Exhausted

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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.

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  Nice, Poor Nations, Would Be

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