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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 Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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good
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Thomas Jefferson
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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

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Martyr, Martyrdom
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. – Karl Marx

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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. – David Hilbert

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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over. – Hillary Clinton

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Men

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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. – Emma Goldman

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Women

After reading Eminems autobiography, which I did because Im so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, hes had to fight so many demons in his life. – Taryn Manning

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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyones task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. – Viktor E. Frankl

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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legal