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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. – Mary Astell

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. – Mary Astell

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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I feel Id like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world. – Susannah York

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Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. – Paul Ryan

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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. – George Santayana

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Peace should provide security. It should be durable. Im ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and thats the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. – Ariel Sharon

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