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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

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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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Disposition
Manners
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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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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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The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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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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I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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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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In the midst of life we are in debt.
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The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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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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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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