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Democrats won’t let you go to work, but they’ll let you riot.

Jim Jordan  Famous Quote

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Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Edward Everett  Famous Quote

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I am not free until I say so. And there's a good chance I am going to have to fight once I do. Ever since I declared my Independence, I have had to support and defend it.

Eric Schaub  Famous Quote

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We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.

Benjamin E. Mays  Famous Quote

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Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

Rudyard Kipling  Famous Quote

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Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.

James Wilson  Famous Quote

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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Moliere  Famous Quote

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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu  Famous Quote

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It is a stroke of good fortune to find one who is worth seducing... Most people rush ahead, become engaged or do other stupid things, and in a turn of the hand everything is over, and they know neither what they have won nor what they have lost.

Soren Kierkegaard  Famous Quote

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The menu is not the meal.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.”

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one’s eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

added 4 years ago

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