Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 9

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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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• 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 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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• When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.

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  Real, Myth, Collision

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

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  Frightened

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• We pursue that which retreats from us.

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  Desire, Retreat, Pursue

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

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  Funny, Dark, Teeth

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• You only get to keep what you give away.

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  Generosity, Giving, Charity

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

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  Men, Talking, Gentleman

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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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• 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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