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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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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Spiritual
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Corruption
Children
Lack
World
Labor
Disease
Compassion
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Child

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