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Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
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Senator Everett Dirksen
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
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English Proverb
Don't fall before you're pushed.
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Sydney Smith
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
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Peter Walker
I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.
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James Dale Davidson
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
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Carl R. Rogers
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Francis Bacon
In charity there is no excess.
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Seneca
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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James X. Mullen
Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
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John P. Grier
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
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