No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

Thomas Paine

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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

It is good to have a goal, but bad to let your goal have you. Focus is good, but focus that is too narrow becomes blindness.

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El filósofo siempre va a pie. Prefiere el bastón de la experiencia al carro rápido de la fortuna.

Where there is no accountability, there will also be no responsibility.

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