"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
-Epicurus
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
-Epicurus
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"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
-Epicurus
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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
-Epicurus
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"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men."
-Epicurus
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
-Epicurus
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
-Azar Nafisi
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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