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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

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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
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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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All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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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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Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
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The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
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Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
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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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What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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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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I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.
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