Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Foreigners, Bloody

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• 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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  Tyrants, Hands, Feelings

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

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  Knows, Universe

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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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• Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

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  Beauty, Virtue, Dies

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• 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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  Communication, Turkeys, Agriculture

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• Despatch is the soul of business.

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  Business, Soul

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Owl, Spiders, Palaces

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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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• 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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• 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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