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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
Bill Vaughan
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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Make
Faces
Degree
Amends
Upon
Ugly
Insensible
Woman
Degrees
Ample
Nature
Figure
Trusts
Persons
Air
Flattery
Person
Figures
Shocking
Enough
Conscious
Formed
Must
Face
Hardly
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The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
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Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.
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The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.
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I feel very bad about getting things wrong.
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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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I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
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IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
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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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We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
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Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.
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WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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