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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. – Robert Hall

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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. – Robert Hall

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War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. – Robert Hall

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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. – Robert Hall

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – George Orwell

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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. – Thomas Carlyle

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A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood

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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. – Michelangelo

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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. – Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. – Horace Mann

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Its an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. – Winona Ryder

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