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"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is intellectual art."
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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage."
Life
"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
Nation
"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
Thought
"My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature."
Nature
"The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords."
Rights
"And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business."
Business
"No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself."
History
"If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it."
Acceptance
"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
Faith
"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."
Trust
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