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“No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.”
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“The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.”
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“The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.”
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“I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.”
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“It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.”
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“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”
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“The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.”
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“Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.”
