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In adversity man is saved by hope.

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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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Hope
Men
Adversity

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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seamed with scars martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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I feel very bad about getting things wrong.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
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