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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Star
Basketball
Boys
Grows
Stars
American
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Nba

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Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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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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It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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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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If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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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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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
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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.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
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I could live a week on one good compliment.
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