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"Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly."
George William Curtis

"The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages other women."
Diane de Pointers

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
Thomas Paine

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world."
Albert Schweitzer

"Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates."
Ron Wyden

"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."
Edward Gibbon

"You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers."
Pope John Paul II

"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."
Cyril Connolly

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