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Quote by William Faulkner
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. – William Faulkner

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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

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Gratitude
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

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Fight, Fighting
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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? – Galileo Galilei

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. – Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

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Intense love does not measure, it just gives. – Mother Teresa

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Its all about the director for me we have to click. Its a trust thing. Ill say Im ready to let down my walls. Ill cry for you as long as you need. But youre going to have to hug me afterwards. – Juno Temple

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If you really believe that youre making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight. – Michael Bloomberg

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Our nations Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve. – Pete Sessions

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