The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.
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We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.
I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.
Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate task of putting our public household in order. We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the future.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.
Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.
Love tought me to cry. So come on courage, teach me to be shy.