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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Speak
Cannot
Wells
Well
Frog
Frogs
Ocean
Understanding

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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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You only get to keep what you give away.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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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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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.
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The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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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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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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In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.
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