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It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

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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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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Our banking system grew byaccident and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
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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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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.
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A tyrant does not remain in the world But the curse on him abides forever!
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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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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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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I could live a week on one good compliment.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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