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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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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Advancement Diffusion Guardian Knowledge
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Accepted Alone Concur Constitution
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Blood Ceaseless Centuries Church
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Could Freedom Midst Nation
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Any Case Cause Decide
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
Big Common Philosophy Sense
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Begets Confidence Religious Sentiments
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Alone Free Free People People
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Aid Flourishes Government Greater
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Constitution Example Happy Hope
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Bondage Enterprise Every Mind
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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Bear Burden Carrying Each
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Acquire Acquired Gives Natural
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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Affairs Betray Calculate Every
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Current In My Opinion Interest Liable
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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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A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.

Community Each EachOne Finds
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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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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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The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Capacities Each EachOne Gain
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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Ability Average AveragePerson Different
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The problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

Problems People World
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Everybody has something to conceal.

Everybody Something Conceal
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Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
Ascend Gate Heights Humility
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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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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

People Drink Afraid Revealing themselves
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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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Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can know may be called 'anthroposophy.'

About Anthropology His Intellect
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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 thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

Thing money Good Your freedom
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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 gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

Gave up Drinking Worst Life
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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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Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

Write down Love Good at Just try
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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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Just as future eclipses of the Sun and Moon are indicated in the present relations of those bodies, so are future earthly lives indicated in what now lives within us.

Bodies Earthly Future Just
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