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Fear is the foundation of most governments. - John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most governments. – John Adams

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. – John Adams

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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. – John Adams

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? – John Adams

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Somehow we cant live outside the politics of race. Theres something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. – Anna Deavere Smith

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While theres life, theres fear. – Mason Cooley

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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. – Martha Beck

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. – Samuel Smiles

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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. – Samuel Johnson

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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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