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" On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sun
Death
Man
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" Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. "
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" The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success. "
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" Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. "
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" We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. "
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" We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us. "
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