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Tom Hopkins
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
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Jose Vasconcelos
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.
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Andr Maurois
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Ovid
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)
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Thucydides
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
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Anonymous
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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T. S. Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Michel de Montaigne
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
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