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• Liberties are not given, they are taken.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Liberty, Given

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• Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Support, Freedom Of Speech

  "On Freedom of Speech and the Press". Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Gazette, November 17, 1737.

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Opportunity, Greatness

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Sleep

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

  Mark Haddon

  Math, Thinking, Numbers

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.50, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

  Matthew Henry

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Happy Spouse-- Happy House: The Best Game Plan for a Winning Marriage" by Pat Williams, Ruth E. Williams, David Wimbish, 2009.

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• I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Events, Politics

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Onwards to Victory”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sweet, Smell, Stupidity

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• PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lying, Character, Two

  Lewis Carroll (1996). “The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll”, p.1018, Wordsworth Editions

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• I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

  Aimee Bender

  Paper, Fists, Felt

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.259, Random House

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• Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Reality, Doe, Earth

  "A Setback to the Dialogue: Response to Huston Smith". Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 36, Issue 2, p. 201, June 2001.

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• In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Death, Country, Normal

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Notes from China”, p.3, Random House

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• Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

  Joseph Hall

  Blessing, Used, Cursed

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.73

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• The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Method

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• I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Distance, Views

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.

  Slash

  Guitar, Play, Stories

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• We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Broken, Comforting

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 30, 2016

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• True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

  Laozi

  Humility, Humble, Opposites

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• Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

  Saint Augustine

  Truth, Lips, Stammering

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.127, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

  Abigail Adams

  Love, Heart, Long

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.1008, Library of America

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• Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

  John Newton

  Heaven, Earth, Christ

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1831). “The Select Works of the Rev. John Newton: ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life & C”, p.76

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• Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

  Richard Hooker

  Matter

  Richard Hooker (1822). “The works of ... Richard Hooker. To which is prefixed the life of the author, by I. Walton”, p.335

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