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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

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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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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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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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Do not ask God the way to heaven He will show you the hardest way.
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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