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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Make
Wear
Good
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Things
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Progress
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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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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Your thoughts are making you.
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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.
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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
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I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to.
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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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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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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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In adversity man is saved by hope.
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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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The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
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