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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what ro

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. – Thomas Jefferson

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Freedom
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Thomas Jefferson
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

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Im not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail. – Ehud Olmert

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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. – Steven Wright

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world. – Al-Ghazali

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

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