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#1

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us
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― Edgar Cayce

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#2

“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

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#3

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
― Louis D. Brandeis

tags: civil-rights, encroachment, freedom, government, liberty, policy, privacy

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#4

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

tags: honesty

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#5

“god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!”
― Ben Franklin

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#6

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle

tags: dignity

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#8

“He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”
― Henry Drummond

tags: character

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#9

“Humility is like underwear; essential,but indecent if it shows”
― Helen Nielsen

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#10

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life

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#11

“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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#12

“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”
― Ernest Hemingway, American Lit for Idiots - a one act play

tags: learning, life, time

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#13

“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
― Robert Frost

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#15

“It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.”
― Arnold Bennett

tags: character, gossip, reputation

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#16

“If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
― Joseph Addison, The Spectator

tags: genius, hope, success

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#17

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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― George Washington

tags: virtue

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#18

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#19

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#20

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#21

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#22

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#23

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#24

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
― Taylor Caldwell

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#25

“Anything worth having is worth working for.”
― Ken Rossignol

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#26

“Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.”
― J. A. Konrath

tags: kindlehighlight

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#27

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

tags: diplomacy, love, outrage

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#28

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: politics

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#29

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

tags: belief, democracy, government, humor, ignorance, intelligence, pathetic, political-commentary, politics, public-office

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#30

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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