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He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

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I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. ↗

— Joseph Jefferson

#am #anything #cannot #everything #i

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. ↗

— Richard Jefferson

#businessmen #chief #executives #first #often

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#care #government #happy #labours #must

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#country #existence #hope #into #like

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#humanity #love #funny

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#already #aristocracy #bid #birth #challenge

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#book #chapter #first #honesty #honesty is

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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