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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Agony Blood Cheap Cost
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Flat Flat Out Kids Need
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Baseball Baseball Game Clock Explained
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Considerable Extent Ignorance Just
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Anxious Error General Loudest
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Citizens Demand Glorify Hesitant
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Exact Greatness All Nature
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Always Crushed Dangerous Enemies
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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Any Because Explanation Happen
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Betrays He His Industry
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

Life Mean My Life Read
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Against Competing Divorced Facts
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Cannot Constitution Eternal Forge
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Because Could Did Greater
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

About I Write People Want
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Complexity Does Growing Imply
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Associate Bad Bad Men Combine
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Act Boundary Feelings Imagination
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Accepts Blacks Bottom Class
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Between In My Opinion Justice Liberty
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Achieve Force More Our
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Fatal Indifference Nothing Religion
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Accounting Balanced Balanced Budget Budget
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Eating Like Read Reflecting
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Delusion Give Liberties Never
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among Cannot Corrupt Exist
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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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Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Accomplished Actually Against Companies
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Actual Any Case Considerable
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art Creation Essentially Finished
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Adopted Attitude Children Dare
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Adultery Forgives Gospel Never
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Africa America Ancestors Been
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Aim Applause End Minds
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Being Bright Cliff Considered
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty Happiness Of Promise
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Blatant Could Failure General
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Change Conservation Means Some
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Good order is the foundation of all things.

All Things Foundation Good Order
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Anything Charge Enjoy Meetings
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Despair Never But Work
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Good All None For
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Agreement Little Politics Pulpit
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Look Meaning Weigh Words
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Basic Best Decide Most
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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Choice Consists Friends Happiness
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Acting Fear Mind Passion
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Art Beast Brave Flatterer
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