Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 7

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• What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

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  Dog, Kings, Shoes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

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  Humility, Embroidery, Chiefs

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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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• 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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• 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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• Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

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  Foreigners, Bloody

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• The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

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  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.

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  Age, Sound, Care

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• Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

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  Funny, Dark, Teeth

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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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• Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

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  Giving Up, Love You, Commitment

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• Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

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  Other Cultures, Gorillas, Way

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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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• He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.

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  Desire, Needs, Individual

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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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• If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

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  Drinking, Political, Abuse

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• The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

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  Real, Support, Decision

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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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• My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

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  Cutting, Understanding, Decay

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• It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

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  Frightened

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