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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless off

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office. – Thomas Jefferson

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Gun Control
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Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson

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Friendship
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Thomas Jefferson
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde

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Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. – Gary Lineker

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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they cant get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. – Yul Brynner

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. – Horst Koehler

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I think growing up is difficult and its a process that Im always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. – Alice Hoffman

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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. – Franz Grillparzer

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