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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

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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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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.
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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
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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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I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
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Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.
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Keep strong if possible in any case, keep cool.
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That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.
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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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Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
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Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
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Do not ask God the way to heaven He will show you the hardest way.
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.
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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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Vote in a national election.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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