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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."

"Discipline is needed in our temperance."

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

"Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character."

"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."

"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."

"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."

"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."


"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."


"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."


"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."


"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."


"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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