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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. – Samuel Adams

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…it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds… – Samuel Adams

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It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. – Samuel Adams

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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. – Robert Frost

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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. – Joseph Campbell

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If you do a trick and it doesnt work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, OK, Im cool, its all good. – Shaun White

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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. – Nathaniel S. Borenstein

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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There is a role and function for beauty in our time. – Tadao Ando

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