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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
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Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, Anything I can do for You today, Lord?
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