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"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
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"Failure exists. Yes! Failure exists. Don't expect to meet all your expectations in life; however, expect to do everything you must do to realize your expectations and success. These two things success and failure have in common; they both responds to uncertainty and they are triggered by action."

"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."

"Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children."

"The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!"
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"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."

"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil."

"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."

"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."

"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."

"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."

"It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master."

"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."

"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."

"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."
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