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If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

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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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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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The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
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Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque
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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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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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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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Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.
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The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
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But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
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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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