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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Wherever
Survive
Humor
Worst
Hope
Best
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I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
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If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
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The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .
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Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
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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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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Our banking system grew byaccident and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
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That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.
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