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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. – 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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Society
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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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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. – K. D. Lang

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A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

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My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. – Horatio Nelson

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. – George Bernard Shaw

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. – John Stuart Mill

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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design. – Herbert Simon

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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. – K. Patricia Cross

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