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Italian Proverb
By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
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Frederick Douglas
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
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Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Kevin Rooney
I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.
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Bhagavad Gita
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
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Alan Holbrook
Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
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David T. Wolf
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Pete Holiday
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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