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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

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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
Dentist
Pearls
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Dark
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Dentistry
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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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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 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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It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.
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There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
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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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Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
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