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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the firs

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery. – Thomas Jefferson

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson

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motivational
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Thomas Jefferson
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear
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In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesnt mean that it couldnt be published. – Alan Dershowitz

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While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor. – Tim Holden

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People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election cant fix. – Sarah Palin

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. – Barbara Tuchman

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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesnt seem like its any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war. – R. Lee Ermey

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers

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Man is an idiot. He doesnt know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. – Augusto Roa Bastos

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My cat speaks sign language with her tail. – Robert A. Stern

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