The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I … - John Adams

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It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

John Adams

The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know. . . Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.

Enough, Humbly, Know, Love, Mercy, Thinking

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The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

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It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

4Th Of July, Celebrated, Continent, Illumination, Parades, Pomp

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Freedom, Inspirational, Liberty, Maxim, Power, War

We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

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Ram Dass

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

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Hortense Calisher

It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.

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Ned Yost

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

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Tracy Chevalier

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

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Neal Shusterman

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

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