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George Mason

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

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"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

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"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union."
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"There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint."
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"I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice."
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"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss."
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"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."
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"Slavery discourages arts and manufactures."
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"In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people."
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"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes."
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"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."
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