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What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Kept
Pretty
Went
Times
Difficult
Proudest
Sanity
Accomplishment

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Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
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Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
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It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.
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Vote in a national election.
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In adversity man is saved by hope.
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Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
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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.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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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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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.
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The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
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It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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