Top 100 Bill Vaughan Quotes
#1. If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
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#2. Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
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#3. The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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#4. Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
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#5. The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.
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#6. Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
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#7. What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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#8. Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
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#9. Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
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#10. The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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#11. Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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#12. 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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#13. What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
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#14. 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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#15. Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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#16. The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
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#17. How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
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#18. You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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#19. Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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#20. Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque
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#21. A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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#22. To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
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#23. The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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#24. Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
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#25. Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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#26. The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
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#27. On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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#28. I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy
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#29. 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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#32. The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
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#33. There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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#34. I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more
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#35. I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.
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#36. The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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#37. So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
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#38. 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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#39. When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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#40. If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.
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#41. People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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#42. The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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#43. In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.
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#45. Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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#46. The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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#47. Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.
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#48. 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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#50. All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.
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#51. These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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#52. I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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#53. Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.
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#54. To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
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#55. 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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#56. I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.
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#57. A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
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#58. He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.
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#59. Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
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#60. The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.
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#61. After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
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#62. Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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#63. I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.
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#64. Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.
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#65. The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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#66. The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
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#68. It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
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#69. Because, as we are told - a sad old joke, too - Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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#70. 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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#71. Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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#72. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
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#73. If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
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#74. He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.
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#75. Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
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#76. There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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#77. The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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#78. When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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#79. Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.
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#80. IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
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#81. One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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#82. The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
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#83. Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.
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#84. O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
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#85. Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.
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#86. We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
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#87. Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
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#88. In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.
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#89. The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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#90. Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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#91. I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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#92. There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
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#93. The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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#94. 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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#95. The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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#96. The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
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#97. A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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#98. The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
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#99. Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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#100. Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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