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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
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The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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