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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad Laws Sort Tyranny
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Adopted Attitude Children Dare
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Agreement Little Politics Pulpit
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Command Commands Free Indeed
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Dishonorable Few Few Things Misleading
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Arena Cause Difficult Distant
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Ages Good Illustrate Live
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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Careless Commonly Curious Face
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Eloquence Same Speak Talking
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution

Citizen Country Fight Leaders Life
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I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Afford Again Back Better
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Girl Grand Like Pianos
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A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Anything Delusion Fails Funny
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

Hear Lot Nervous People
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Happy Both Children Get
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Believe Care Cases Environment
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I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.

Care Could Less Prove
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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Bureaucratic Communities Efforts Finding
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Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Culture History Language Nation
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Acting After Bear Boarding
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Boring Character Male Pretty
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

Great Great Stories Just Part
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Ability Cycle Evolving Get
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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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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Case Concerned Every Every Man
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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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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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Bad Conviction Done Many
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Arising Changes Circumstances Often
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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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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

All Things Answered Ends Great
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Accept Barbarism Be Prepared Civilization
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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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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Accomplish Hell Here No Rules
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Close Did Failures Gave
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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Show Will You What
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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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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Behind Denying Everything Exists
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Art Masters Mind Old
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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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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Contradictions God Life Me
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