...the story of a man who saw ...

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I\'m doing? I\'m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I\'m making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I\'m building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he\'s spent his last eight hours?
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?
 Bill Vaughan

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Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.
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 Bill Vaughan
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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 Bill Vaughan
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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 Bill Vaughan