"Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one."
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"When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods."
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"Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again."
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"Enthusiasm is like having two right hands."
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"Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession."
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"An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love."
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"Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced."
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"I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom."
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"The thing we fear we bring to pass."
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"The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep."
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"What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need."
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"To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself."
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"Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner."
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"Government is a kind of legalized pillage."
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"Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes."
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"There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet."
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"Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us."
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"Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both."
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"The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs."
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"Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead."
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