It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

Tom Stoppard
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  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

  4. Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi

  5. It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.... - Henry Rollins

More Quotes By Tom Stoppard
  1. It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

  2. I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

  3. Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

  4. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

  5. We're actors – we're the opposite of people!

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