"A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny."
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"I know my role and I play it well."
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"Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise."
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"In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well."
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"Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well."
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"Only time will tell if it was time well-spent"
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"He who hid well, lived well."
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"There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow."
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"We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite."
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"Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find."
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"Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy."
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"Oh well, whatever, nevermind."
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"The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much."
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"I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system."
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"Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well."
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"I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well."
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"Words can INSPIRE and words can DESTROY. Choose YOURS well"
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"Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered."
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"Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward"
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"Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine."
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