“There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.”
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“Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.”
― The Atonement Child
― The Atonement Child
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.”
― Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
― Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
“But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.”
― Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
― Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
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