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Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Men
Time
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Fathers

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Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
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How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
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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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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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