Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 18

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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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• My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

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  Book, Son, Cutting

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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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  Hate, Dating, Enemy

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• We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

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  Understanding, Inspire, Soul

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• Letters should be easy and natural.

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  Letters, Easy, Natural

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• The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

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  Fun, Men, Serenity

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• Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

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  Fall, Kids, Age

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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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• After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

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  Ants, Pleasure, Graves

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• In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

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  Country, Believe, Taught

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• I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.

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  May, Financial, Crisis

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• Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

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  Needs, Clubs, Want

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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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  Army, Race, Individuality

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• Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

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  Gratitude, Spring, Flower

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• I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

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  Cat, Ties, England

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• Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

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  Patience, Men, Details

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• A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

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  Character, Men, Judging

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• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

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  Hands, Empty, Danger

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• WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

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  Animal, World, May

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• I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

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  Thinking, Air, Support

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• If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

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  Couple, House, May

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• The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

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  Today, Contrast

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• Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

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  Party, Believe, Doe

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• The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

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  New York, Enemy, Politician

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