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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. - Thoma

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson

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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. – Thomas Jefferson

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. – John F. Kennedy

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He guided the passions of others, because he was master of his own. – Ebenezer Grant Marsh

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! – William Lloyd Garrison

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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We cant grow the middle class if we dont give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent. – Michael Nutter

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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. – Wilma Rudolph

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