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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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Missouri
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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.
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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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My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
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I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
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I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.
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Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
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I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
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Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
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There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
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