Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite. ~Dan Wells
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. ~James Redfield
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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