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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Opinion
Support
Gathering
Making
Meeting
Process
Opinions
Happens
Developing
Real
Meetings
Decisions
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In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
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We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
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It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
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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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The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
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