Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 9

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• The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.

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  Dog, Animal, Play

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• Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

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  Revenge, Taken, People

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• The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

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  Veils, Confession, Secrecy

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• It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

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  Law, Letters, May

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• As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

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  Glasses, Liquid, Lasts

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• There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.

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  Men, Race, Long

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• How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

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  Husband, Hate, Men

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• We pursue that which retreats from us.

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  Desire, Retreat, Pursue

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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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• 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

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  Suicide, Nuts, Bridges

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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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• 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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• An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

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  Done, Way, Reform

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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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• 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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• 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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• What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

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  Thinking, Needs, Band

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

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  Smoking, Masters, Plans

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• O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

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  Earth, Dinner, Eating

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