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"The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection."	Alexander Hamilton
"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."	Malcolm X
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."	Ayn Rand
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."	Ayn Rand
"Evil is obvious only in retrospect."	Gloria Steinem
"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."	Rebecca West
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end."	William Shakespeare
"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."	William Shakespeare
"One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one."	D.H. Lawrence
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."	Groucho Marx
"It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them."	Edmund Burke
"If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,-and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter."	Edmund Burke
"I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it."	Abraham Lincoln
"Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"	Abraham Lincoln
"There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration."	Abraham Lincoln
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