"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.“

-Thomas Carlyle

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"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."

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"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."

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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."

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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."

-Marvin Gaye

"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."

-Lucy Hale

"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."

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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."

-John Clayton

"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."

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