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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

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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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I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
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I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
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The highest duty is to respect authority.
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The easiest books are generally the best for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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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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Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
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I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy
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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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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
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It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.
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The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
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What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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