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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
Orwell
George
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Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Despatch is the soul of business.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.
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The easiest books are generally the best for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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