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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin

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Id like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart. – Mitch Hedberg

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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. – George Carlin

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I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. – Marcus Garvey

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