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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Away Danger Expedience Liberty
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Always Defend God Grants
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Nothing Often Powerful Strange
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Forever Inseparable Liberty Now
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Earth Materials Natural Productions
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Among Diffusion Education Free
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Answerable By The People For The People Government
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Associated Being Condition Creatures
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Because Dressed Like Look
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Christ Decay Despair Else
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Consists Worth You Your
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Good Imagination Invent Junk
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent Failure First Man
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Abandon Absolutely Appalled Brain
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius Inspiration Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Astonishing Brains Definitely Effort
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Always America Be Brave Before
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Anything Invent Proof Sale
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Achieve Anything Common Essentials
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Balance Happiness Harmony Intensity
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Alone Also Begin Convinced
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Earth Event Every His
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ Dry Eyes Feet
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America Anything Begin Catalogue
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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Each Family Felt Life
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
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And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Challenge Obviously Our Own
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Backing Between Business Dividing
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Doing Falling Following Learn
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My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Any Around Invest Money
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Aim Earth Heaven Neither
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Noticed Often Original Originality
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

True Christianity False Importance
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Walking Adult Come Fact
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Capitalists Criminals Cut Enemies
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Creatures Dark Eyes Found
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Afflictions Anxieties Christ Defect
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Humility Infinitely Listening Lying
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Beginning Find Fit Image
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

About Been Discover Discovery
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