The whole glory of virtue resides in activity. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

Activity, Glory, Virtue, Whole

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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Acquire, Employ, Enough, Necessary

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

Men, People, Public, Raised, Tyrants, Ungoverned

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Grace, Graceful, Virtuous

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

Freely, Moving, Rustling, Survive, Tyrants, World Government

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

Decision, Indecision, Lost, Opportunity, Thieves

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Robert Anton Wilson

I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.

Brother, Hurt, Mother, People, Perish, Rampant

Rosalynn Carter

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

Accept, Accepting, Confidence, Facts, Perfect

Michael Morell

Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U. S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.

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Paul Westerberg

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Annie Sprinkle

My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.

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