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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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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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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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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He who cannot howl will not find his pack. ~Charles Simic
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player. ~Anna Kournikova
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God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Science is not about what is true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence. ~Lee Smolin
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles Melville Hays
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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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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Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and greatly inspire others. ~John Wooden
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