When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have … - Alexis de Tocqueville

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The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of the era.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Asks, Citizens, Cooperation, Fellow, Seen

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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.

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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Air, Comfort, Increase, Individuality, Period, Preoccupied

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Benefits, Long, Material, Materials, Prize

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.

Democracy, Philosophy, Political, Slavery, Way

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Cure, Energy, Enough, Evil, Seek

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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

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Drunvalo Melchizedek

As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks only of itself and lives in duality. But when the heart is in control, everything comes back to balance, for the heart feels and knows only the oneness of life.

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Ambrose Bierce

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

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Louis L'Amour

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

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