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Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.
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To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.
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As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.
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The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.
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The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.
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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
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The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.
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For the fourth time the officer elected by the people and ordained by the Constitution to fill a vacancy so created is called to assume the Executive chair.
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To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
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In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.
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the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step
Confuciusmisattributed·The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics (trans. James Legge)·1891
Wrongly attributed
Not Confucius. The line is from the Tao Teh King, a different book by a different school, traditionally ascribed to Laozi -- a figure whose very existence historians doubt. Two things drift in the popular version: li becomes miles, and commenced becomes begins with. Legge's 1891 translation, the standard English text for a century, says neither.
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To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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Your life will never be a straight path.
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This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
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I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike
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This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.
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The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
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When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it.
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The Revolution was made to preserve our ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty.
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you would wonder at seeing how possible it is to live as secludedly in the midst of a multitude as in the centre of solitude
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Do you think I was born to live the life of an oyster, such as I do live here?
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Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.
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The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.
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There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.