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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
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"Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Fortune befriends the bold."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
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"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."
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"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."
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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."
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"In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances."
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"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."
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"In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule."
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"Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more."
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"His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected."
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