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A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
Bill Vaughan
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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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The fact is that I loved being in England.
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But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
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Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
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The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
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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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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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Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
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The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals that's what they do.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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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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Keep strong if possible in any case, keep cool.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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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 real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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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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I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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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.
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