Our ancestors. . . were laborers, not lawyers. - Thomas Jefferson

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Yosemite Park. . . None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.

Thomas Jefferson

Our ancestors. . . were laborers, not lawyers.

Lawyer, Ancestor, Laborers, Lawyers, Ancestors

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Country, Government, Patriot, True

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Abandon, Achieve, Freedom, Lose, Security

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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Michel Ocelot

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

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John Muir

Yosemite Park. . . None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.

Charms, Fire, Forever, Tree, Yosemite

Brian Dennehy

From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.

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Susanna Kaysen

For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.

Country, Crawling, Pieces, Two, Workings, Writing

Drew Barrymore

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

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