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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. – Thomas Jefferson

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But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. – Jesus Christ

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Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I dont do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and Ill benefit from it. – David Schwimmer

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. – Benjamin Franklin

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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds. – John McLaughlin

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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. – Cameron Crowe

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