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• When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt to defend itself when he tries to kill it.
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
  -- Thomas Fulle...
• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• Man has now conquered almost everything in nature except human nature.
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceeded it.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• I'm frustrated by your apathy And I am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land If only I could meet the Maker And I am fascinated by the spiritual man I am humbled by his humble nature.
  -- Alanis Morissette...
• Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself-that is my doctrine.
  -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)...