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Thomas Jefferson

Its soul, its climate, its equality, liberty, laws, people, and manners. My god! how little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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Thomas Jefferson

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

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Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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Thomas Jefferson

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

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Thomas Merton

I have been summoned to explore a desert area of man's heart in which explanations no longer suffice, and in which one learns that only experience counts.

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Thomas Merton

Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Confidence | Freedom | Peace | Teach |

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Thomas Merton

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

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Willard L. Sperry, fully Willard Learoyd Sperry

We are living at a time when it is absolutely essential to make a clean cut distinction between the magical attitude and the religious attitude in life. We have today as men never dreamed of having in other days, coercive control over tremendous forces in the natural world. We make daily trial of these forces, we “tempt” them, and they obey. We press the button, and throw the switch, and spin the dial, and step on the accelerator and the gods of all mythology touch their caps in deferential obedience to our slightest whim. The applied sciences of the twentieth century do make magicians of us all. It should be said at once that the pure scientist stands absolutely free of the charge of practicing magic. The affinities of pure science are with religion, in that its reference is not from the universe to man’s uses, but from man to the realities of his universe. But the pure scientist is as rare a creature in our world as the pure saint. The vulgar modern heresy that society is made up of a large number of very pure scientists and an equally large number of very impure Christians is simply grotesque. Once in a while this world sees men like Saint Francis, John Woolman, Charles Darwin, and Michael Faraday; once in a great while. But the pure scientist is as much an exception in a university laboratory as the pure saint is an exception in a sectarian meeting house. For the most part we have at hand a society of persons practicing variously in the names of religion and science a self-willed, uncritical, and arrogant attempt to make the ultimate forces give them what they severally desire. And this temptation of the Lord their God is neither science nor religion in the noblest meaning of those words.

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William Carleton

My native place was [alive] with old legends, tales, traditions, customs and superstitions; so that in my early youth, even beyond the walls of my own humble roof, they met me in every direction.

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William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Confidence | Integrity | Little |

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Wilhelm von Humboldt, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Confidence | Grave | Light | Will |

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William Cowper

With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave; some chord in unison with what we hear is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

Confidence | Father | Heaven |

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Confidence | Will | Friends |

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

I have looked politics and the movies both over and, while they have much in common I believe politics is the most common, so I will stay with the movies.

Confidence | Work | World |

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Willard Gaylen

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

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Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather

We were at last in Monte Cristo's country, fairly into the country of the fabulous, where extravagance ceases to exist because everything is extravagant, and where the wildest dreams come true.

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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney

Teen-agers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort

Confidence | Dreams | Man |

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Walter Bagehot

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.

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