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Andrew Jackson, 1821
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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William Ellery Channing
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
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Cicero
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
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Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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Alfred Hitchcock
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
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Author Unknown
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
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Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Stephen Crane
A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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Sallust
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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