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Power is not alluring to pure minds. - Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. – Thomas Jefferson

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Hope
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Thomas Jefferson
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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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Generations
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Thomas Jefferson
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. – Thomas Jefferson

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good
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Thomas Jefferson
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power
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Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, its really like magic because you transform reality for people. – Louis C. K.

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power

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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power

Dont you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. – Barbara Corcoran

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power

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasnt happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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power

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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. – Henry Ward Beecher

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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next. – Desmond Tutu

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They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldnt wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together. – Al Roker

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The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. – G.K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”

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