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Protect your inner peace and all the emotions that go with it. It’s important for your overall well-being.Save your energy for the important things that the Almighty will send your way!

Protect Inner peace Emotions Well being
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The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Any Better Fact Get
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The tree that does not support us when we lean on it cannot kill us when it falls on us.

The tree Support us Lean Kill
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Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
Your smile Positive countenance Comfortable
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

All Things Democracy Mediocrity Tendency
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Belongs Both Breeding Candor
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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.

Abuse Ambition American Common
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

Becomes Child Citizen Controlling
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Impossible Enslave Mentally Human freedom
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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.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Corrupt Defeating Leads Legislation
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Fame Vapor Accident Riches
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

America Colonies Different Establishing
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We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

One people Freedom Slavery
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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.

Democracy Exhibit Form Law
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The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Darkest hour Man's life Sits down Money
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Boasting Noble deeds Ugly fact Iniquitous
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

I am Inferior Man Right
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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.

Another Better Christian Coat
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The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Best use Journal Practical amount Truth
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

Active Cannot Costly Depends
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Men Great riches Culture Business
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Action Aim Being Citizen
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Being Clearly Deal Ending
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Away Blankets Cool Kiss
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Admire Always Love Those
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Bear Close Each Ever
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Breathless Grass Hill Kissed
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

All-Around Any Around Character
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Abstain Accumulate Add Aid
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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.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Again Heart Kiss Makes
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

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

Active Bosom Civilized Civilized Society
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Been Break Consequence Direction
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

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

Abuse Disposition Does Majority
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Bad Book Cannot Compared
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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.

Agency Aim Evil Good
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Adventure Amusing Any Book
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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

Combinations Common Expense Individuals
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Acquisitions Age Apt Becomes
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
Bargain Battles Discussed Rarely
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Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Day Every EveryDay Get
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I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

Being Bridges Comprehensive Crowds
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Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

Compared Condemn Deal Distinguished
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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Any Anymore Every Last
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For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Doing Enjoying Everything First
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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