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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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