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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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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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I feel very bad about getting things wrong.
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You only get to keep what you give away.
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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The fact is that I loved being in England.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.
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In the midst of life we are in debt.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums of money which are then used in support of their campaign or to contribute to their campaign. They were trying to close that loophole.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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A tyrant does not remain in the world But the curse on him abides forever!
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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