"Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race;……" — Bill Vaughan
"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."
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191 Quotes by Bill Vaughan
Bill Vaughan has 191 quotes on this site.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody…
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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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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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in…
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to…
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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets…
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest…
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
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