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You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

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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
Wells
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Sopranos
Depressed
Dies
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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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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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil all there is, is beaut).
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A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
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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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Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.
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Where God is, all agree.
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IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
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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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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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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
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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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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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