Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 11

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• Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Basketball, Stars

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• Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

  Bill Vaughan

  Law, Would Be, Today

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• How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.

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  Children, Men, Wife

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• As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

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  Spring, Night, Men

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• The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

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  Real, Moving, Artist

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• He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

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  Adversity, Pleasure, Knows

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• Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

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  Real, Service Culture, Wish

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• Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

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  Dark, Window, Crime

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• How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

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  Tombstone, Names, Two

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• The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

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  Forgiveness, Character, United States

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• The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

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  God, Atheism, Fingerprints

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• The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

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  Sweet, Heart, Problem

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• A nation has character only when it is free.

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  Character, Liberty, Nations

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• The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

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  Men, Lines, Narcissism

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• Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

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  Power, Hands, Ties

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• Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Divided

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• Think before you think!

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  Thinking

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• It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

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  Travel, Cutting, Way

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• Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

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  Truth, Men, Found

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• An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

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  Country, Presidential, Voting

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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.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Hands, Shopping

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• Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

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  Giving, Creative, Sublime

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• Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

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  Wise, Government, Liberty

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• One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

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  Kids, Followers, Advantage

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• I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

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  Meaningful, Stars, Growing Up

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