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"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

"I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there, it's there waiting to be noticed."

"You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact."

"It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad."

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
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"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."


"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."


"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."


"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."


"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."


"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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