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“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”
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“Languages shape the way we think, or don't.”
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“Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.”
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“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.”
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“I have had breast implants, but it's so funny 'cause it's not a secret; I could care less.”
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“I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.”
Source : "e-Patient Dave: How an Empowered Patient Recovered From Stage IV Cancer and Found a Higher Calling". Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 04, 2011. 
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“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”
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“My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.”
Source : Della Reese (1998). “Angels Along the Way: My Life with Help from Above”, Berkley
