Quote by Robert Toombs
We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid

We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. – Robert Toombs

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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. – Robert Toombs

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Equality
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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. – Robert Toombs

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Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes. – Terri Guillemets, “A renewed outlook,” 2007

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I think people that have fear that, Oh if I have a kid I wont be able to do this and I wont be able to do that. Its kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better. – Anthony Kiedis

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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. – King Abdullah II

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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. Im not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. – Harlan Coben

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Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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All the time hes boxing, hes thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him. – Jack Dempsey

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. – John Mayer

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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. – Thornton Wilder

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