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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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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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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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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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There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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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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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.
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Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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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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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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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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If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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