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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks he's rocking his own.
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'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
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A 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
'A canny canner can can
Anything that he can
But a canner can't can a can, can he?'
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