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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Alliances Dogma Fanaticism Passion Professes Religious
When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Children Church Educate Entire Necessary Opposite Religion Remove State
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Absolute Appear Entire Minority People Redemption Resist Seldom Treason
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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Attack Development Ignorance Mindedness Narrow Shaken Simple Thing Two
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Century Civilization Delicate Free Mature Mean Nation Pass Resolve Scarcely Since Term
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Account Country Ensalve Generous Powerful Spirit
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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Anxiety Generous Morning Nothing Today Paper
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation

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