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| Liking What We Do
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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| Great Dreams
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
-- Harriet Tubman
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| Exercising Freedom
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
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| External Influences
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-- Marcus Aurelius
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| Rembering 9/11, 12 Years Later
The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America.
And standing here in the heartland of America, ...
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| Real Equality
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
-- Barry ...
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| What Should Be Done
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
-- Ross Perot
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| Essence of America
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
-- Condoleezza Rice
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| Mexican Food
Never eat Mexican food east of Mississippi or north of Dallas.
-- Lyle Lovett
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| Greatness isn't Easy
If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.
-- Mike Ditka
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| Moderation in Some Things
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
-- Thomas Paine
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| Majority Rule
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
-- Robert Bork
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| Opportunity = Work
I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work. I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job. ...
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| Role of the Press
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
-- Walter Cronkite on the proper role of the press
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| Defining Character
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions—none more so than the most capable.
-- Theodore Dreiser
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| Destroying America
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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| Encroaching Government
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
-- James Madison
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| Virtues of Common Drinks
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| Humane Treatment of American Indians
It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government ...
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| Exploring Genius
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| Life is Action
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
-- Woodrow Wilson
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| Curiosity Revealed
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
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| Moderation
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus
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| Hamilton on Christianity
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of ...
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| Becoming Less Free
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
-- Harry Browne ...
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