"The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray"
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"For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God"
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"I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people."
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"I notice that all of the people who support abortion are already born."
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"A people free to choose will always choose peace."
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"My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government."
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"History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness."
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"We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are."
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"I use music as a medium to talk to people."
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"Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek."
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"Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers."
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"We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die."
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"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it."
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"The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble."
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"I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards."
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"Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet."
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"I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal."
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"Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile."
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"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
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"A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out."
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