Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 9

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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 competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

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  Nbc, Anchors, Competition

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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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• 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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• In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

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  Order, Years, Pay

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• The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

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  Men, Talking, Gentleman

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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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• I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

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  Believe, Communication, School

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

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  Frightened

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

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  Winning, Average, Underdog

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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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• The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!

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  Wise, Book, Angel

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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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• Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

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  Beauty, Virtue, Dies

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• There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

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  Book, Past, Long

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• Despatch is the soul of business.

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  Business, Soul

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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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• No one can bring to God what you can.

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  Uniqueness

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