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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
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The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
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The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.
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The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
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The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
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