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Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Responsibility
Democratic
Flowering
Even
Demand
Possess
People
Accept
Admit
Courage
Acts
Inglorious
Accepting
Trees
Tinkering
Tree
Honesty
Effortlessly
Democracy
Mistakes
Ceaseless
Mistake
Institutions
Renew

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