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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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