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"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."

"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."

"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."

"Experience gives the greatest lessons of life."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."

"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."

"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders."
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