Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 8

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• What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

  Bill Vaughan

  Suicide, Nuts, Bridges

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• The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

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  Sight, Water, Meditation

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• It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

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  Thinking, Heaven, Entering

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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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• 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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• The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

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  Loss, Sky, Tears

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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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• Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join.

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  Loss, Choices, Details

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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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• 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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• Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

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  Real, House, Doe

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• We pursue that which retreats from us.

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  Desire, Retreat, Pursue

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• The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

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  Deceit, Way, Dupes

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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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• 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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• Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

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  Blow, Wind, Enemy

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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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• The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

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  Country, Europe, Constitution

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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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• 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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• Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

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  Horse, Men, May

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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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• 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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