Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. - Henry David Thoreau - Quotesmemo.com

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Henry David Thoreau

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Back, Past, Simple, Simplify, Struggle, Worrying

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Beauty Within, Look, Looks, Possible, Question, See

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Inspirational, Look, Matters, Motivational, Positive, See

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If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the last time I met him in 1997 in Afghanistan. And bin Laden said to me "From this mountain, Mr. Robert, upon which you are sitting, we beat the Russian army and helped break the Soviet Union. And I pray to God that he allows us to turn America into a shadow of itself. " When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

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