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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Retirement
Busy
Circumstances
Healthy
Rich
Understand
Great
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A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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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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You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
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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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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
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The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seamed with scars martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .
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I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
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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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Our banking system grew byaccident and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
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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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Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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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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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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