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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. – John Adams

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Men
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John Adams
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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Desires
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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Imagination

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. – Larry McMurtry

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Imagination

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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Imagination

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Imagination

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Actually I never did stand up. Im not that funny. – Maynard James Keenan

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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. – W.B. Yeats

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Fate

No matter how close to yours anothers steps have grown, in the end there is one dance youll do alone. – Jackson Browne

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alone

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We cant always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. – Robert Urich

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Medical