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| Bill Vaughn
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. 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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