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“Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.”

John Ruskin

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“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists”

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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows…

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As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

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I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average…

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When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look…

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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper…

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It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an…

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“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and moral questions, in the history of nations; and that your feelings, or my own, or anybody else's, at any particular moment, are of very little interest to me,--not from want of sympathy, but from the small…

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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because…

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I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so…

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That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it…

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There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact…

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Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go…

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That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of…

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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