Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.”

— Bill Vaughan

52. “Dark windows are often a very clear proof.”

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53. “Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.”

— Bill Vaughan

54. “Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it’s a profitability strategy.”

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55. “The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.”

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56. “In the midst of life we are in debt.”

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57. “The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident.”

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58. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”

— Bill Vaughan

59. “Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.”

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60. “There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!”

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61. “Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.”

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62. “I don’t care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.”

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63. “All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.”

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64. “If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.”

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65. “The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.”

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66. “The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man’s passing.”

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67. “Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.”

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68. “Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.”

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69. “The price of power is responsibility for the public good.”

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70. “It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.”

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71. “Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.”

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72. “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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73. “Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing – that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart – is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.”

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74. “The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.”

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75. “The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.”

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76. “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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77. “The eyes are the amulets of the mind.”

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78. “What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.”

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79. “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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80. “A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.”

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81. “Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.”

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82. “Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.”

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83. “Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.”

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84. “Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.”

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85. “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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86. “It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”

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87. “In adversity man is saved by hope.”

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88. “The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.”

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89. “I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.”

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90. “Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!”

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91. “It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”

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92. “The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.”

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93. “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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94. “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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95. “Kids don’t talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don’t necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.”

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96. “Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.”

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97. “The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.”

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98. “Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.”

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99. “By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.”

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100. “Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?”

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