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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Advantage Afraid Almost American
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Come Enemy Fighting Foreign
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Branches Charter Constitutional Derived
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Abuse Essence Ever Government
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Having Men Ought Power
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Believe Freedom Gradual I Believe
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Arm Forever Gives Govern
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Advancement Diffusion Guardian Knowledge
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Any Before Branch Commerce
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Against Become Danger Defense
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Control Enable First Framing
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Diversity Faculties First Government
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Against Best Crafty Dangerous
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Government Greatest Human Human Nature
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Alarm Experiment First Liberties
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Avail Cannot Choice Laws
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Certain Certain Degree Degree Having
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Begets Confidence Religious Sentiments
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Aid Flourishes Government Greater
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Acquiring Both Farce Government
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Both Done Doubt Every
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Different Different Opinions Exercise Fallible
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Abolition Capital Capital Punishment Entire
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Develop Evolve Feeling Find
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If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

Another Cognitive Criticize Deeply
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All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Become Begins Incomprehensible Language
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The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

Arithmetic Important ImportantThing Lives
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Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.

Art Being Concentrate Continually
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The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

Based Basis Become Build
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Everybody has something to conceal.

Everybody Something Conceal
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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
Point Making money Big shot
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Actor Need Stabilize Personality
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We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

Against Criticizing Devotion Disrespectful
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'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Also Around Complimentary Everyone
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Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

About Anything Avalanche Everything
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There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

Never seems Trouble Brewing around Bar
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The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

Only reason Million dollars Business
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I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

Born Kissed me Lived Loved me
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

Almost Because Beyond Clearly
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When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Come home My daughter Door Hug
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

American Consistently Data Facts
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Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Terms True natures Fascination Human
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I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Two children Amazing Nature Light
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I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

Dreamt Movie Musical Long time
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The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.

Along Come Development Human
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I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Never Wanted Stage Musical
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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I believe Frightening Realize
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It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Acting My life My heart
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