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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderati

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine

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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS — our inferior one varies with the place. – Thomas Paine

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Citizenship
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Thomas Paine
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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. – Thomas Paine

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God
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Thomas Paine
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Its a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise Id be a drag queen. – Dolly Parton

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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. – Salvador Dali

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. – Robert A. Heinlein

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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. – Albert Camus

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When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. – David Hume

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I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way. – Jeff Miller

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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. – Stephen Jay Gould

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