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2008 January 04
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"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life in such a manner that
when you die the world cries and you rejoice." |
"Your depth of commitment,
your quality of service,
the product of your devotion --
these are the things that count in life." |
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." |
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2008 January 03
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"If you wish to be loved,
show more of your faults
than your virtues." |
"What is the essence of America?
Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance
between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'." |
"It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care
of our own business and letting everybody else's alone,
to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again." |
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2008 January 02
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"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand
the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and
who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power." |
"Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty." |
"Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods." |
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2008 January 01
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"[I]f we can but prevent the government
from wasting the labours of the people,
under the pretence of taking care of them,
they must become happy." |
"We believe that human happiness requires freedom
and that freedom requires limited government." |
"Happiness is something that comes into our lives
through doors we don't even remember leaving open." |
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2007 December 31
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"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." |
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner." |
"Personal liberty is the paramount essential
to human dignity and human happiness." |
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