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I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

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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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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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A tyrant does not remain in the world But the curse on him abides forever!
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Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Our banking system grew byaccident and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
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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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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
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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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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
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Keep strong if possible in any case, keep cool.
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All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.
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Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.
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It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly they tend to be planned pretty well.
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Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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