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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries

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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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do. – Faye Dunaway

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No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel its the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope. – Josh Radnor

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I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction. – Bob Riley

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Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people… No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. – Thomas Becket

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I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother. – Jimmy Carl Black

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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared. – Ben Affleck

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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

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