"The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to."
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"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make."
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"If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others."
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"I am a man who does not exist for others."
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"I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something."
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"But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all."
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"Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture."
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"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember"
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"Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder."
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"The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity."
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"A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it."
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"How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?"
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"Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing."
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"If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power."
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"Violence does even justice unjustly."
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"Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer."
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"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."
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"Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving"
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"It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop."
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"If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does."
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