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Lowell Duckett
Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.
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John the Elder
God is love,and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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Philip Jose Farmer
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
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Florence Shinn
Giving opens the way for receiving.
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Samuel Butler
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Dorthea Bragg
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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Vine Deloria, Jr.
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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Theodore Roosevelt
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
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