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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

Deserve Freedom Own Each
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Trust Protect Lost People
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Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Mean Force Live Belief
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Don't let your failures define you.
Let You Your Define
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Would Dead Not Worth
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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.

Happy Want Same Mean
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If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

Active Young Want Poor
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Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

Pursue Careful Person Fear
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Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Every Get With Pot
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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.

Duty Value Fruit Never
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When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!

Much Your Yourself Done
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Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.

Live Not What Would
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God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.

Heal Fee Take The
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.

Receive Return Favor Much
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Fool Have Honest Are
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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There’s no formula. Keep busy with your work and your life. You can’t become a professional mourner. It doesn’t help you or others. Replay the good times. Be grateful for the years you had.

Become Keep Good Work
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There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Always Down Song Bad
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You can look at that by comparing Medicare's growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.

Look Rate Waste Year
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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Self Latter Accept Face
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Man Go Who Living
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Life Change Only Can
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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Being Human Love Possible
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We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Inevitable Charge Attitude Convince
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There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?

Afternoon Test Important Ready
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Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Empty Sorrow Strenght Tomorrow
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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Story Write Like Own
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Method Wisdom Reflection Imitation
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It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

What Happy Think About
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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

The People Forgot You
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

Big Event Experiences Get
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Little Good World Overwhelm
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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Action Create Legacy Dream
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Cry Smile Happen Over
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When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!

Wake Mountain Distance Trip
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership Art Done Want
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Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

Relationship Religion God Church
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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Important Enough Favor Odd
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer,

Certain Person Speak Excuse
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Moment Life Whole Blankly
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Comfortable Complete Situation Trouble
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A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.

Evil Effect Guilty Crime
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Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are.

Confuse Attitude Depend Personality
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If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Miserable Shit Deserve Boring
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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Truth Illusion Destroy Hear
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Respect Around Cease Love
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Endowed Sense Reason Intellect
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Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

Pattern Reality Point Sense
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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Result Surprise People Thing
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