Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 7

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• Contraries are cured by contraries.

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  Behaviour, Behavior, Manners

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

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  Simple, Expression, Kind

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• All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

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  Betrayal, Lying, Commitment

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• Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

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  Men, Work Out, Bird

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• Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

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  Humility, Embroidery, Chiefs

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• The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

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  Keys, Two, Childhood

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• Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

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  Vanity, Age, Aristocracy

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• What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

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  Accomplishment, Difficult Times, Sanity

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• Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

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  Baseball, Umpires, Parking Space

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• The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

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  War, America, Borders

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• Everything pales in comparison to deer.

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  Deer, Pale, Comparison

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• The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

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  Work, Organization, Important

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• One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

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  Real, Men, Gentleman

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• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?

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  Love, Philosophy, Heart

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• How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Moral

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• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

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  Distance, Mean, Reality

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• Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

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  Power, Band, Drumming

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• The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.

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  Congratulations, Pressure, Dissent

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• I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

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  Believe, Religion, Tears

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• Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

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  House, Gentleman, President

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• It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.

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  Inspirational, Responsibility, Dedication

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

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  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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• Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

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  Pockets, Coins, Flattery

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• Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

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  Innovation, Degrees, Prejudice

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• Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.

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  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

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