Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 15

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• The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

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  People, Each Day, Ability

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• A silly row which got out of hand.

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  Silly, Hands, Argument

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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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  Going Away, Use, Fool

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• The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

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  Israel, Florence, Minorities

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• The highest duty is to respect authority.

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  Authority, Duty, Highest

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• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

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  Writing, Firsts, Temples

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• Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

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  Dark, Window, Crime

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• It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

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  Alarms, Typical, Transition

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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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• According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

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  Bible, Body, Scripture

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• I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

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  People, Ifs

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• Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

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  Fashion, Book, Years

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• I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

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  Book, Greek, Bed

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• The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

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  Government, Coal, Shutting Down

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• A nation has character only when it is free.

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  Character, Liberty, Nations

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• God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.

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  God, Fighting, Victory

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• Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

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  Letting Go, Spring, Adversity

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• It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.

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  Jesus, Happens

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• I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.

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  Caring, Guy, Care

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• Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.

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  Play, Causes, Three

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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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• Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

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  America, Claims, Mankind

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• The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.

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  Struggle, Relief, Disruption

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• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

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  Country, Order, Arena

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• Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

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  Country, Thinking, Would Be

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