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Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 5

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Happiness, Baby, Children

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Healing, Health, Simple

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

Believe, Temptation, Atheism

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

Wall, Long, Tests

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Hero, Murder, Villain

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.

Mean, Self, Meditation

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Thinking, Balance, Down And

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

Wisdom, Spring, Men

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

May, Flattery, Despise

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Atheist, Atheism, Positive Atheism

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

Communication, Names, Speak

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.

Acumen, Alive, Chickens

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

Communication, Age, World

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Running, Men, Mirrors

"Zhuangzi: Basic Writings". Book by Zhuangzi, Columbia University Press, p. 64, 2003.

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.

Funny, Money, Educational

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.

President, Want, Affair

I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Government, Thursday, Stills

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

Book, Thinking, Doe

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Years, Long, Age

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Art, Book, Adversity

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

Kids, Mcdonalds, Choices

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Political, Vices, Doe

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

Heart, Brave, England

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

People, Pocket Watches, Conversation

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Constitution

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