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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Future
Need
Needs
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
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We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
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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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Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
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Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
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There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
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