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Our banking system grew byaccident and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Banking
Wherever
Grew
Becomes
System
Religion
Happens
Something

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