 Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. |
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| Beat your own and others will fear you. |
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| A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. |
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| Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective. |
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| Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs. |
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| Familiarity breeds contempt. |
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| Cynics are made, not born. |
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| Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. |
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| The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. |
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| To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. |
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| Voters are people who have the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them. |
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| Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. |
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| Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head. |
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| Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time. |
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| Everyone smiles in the same language. |
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| Don't do whatever you like , like whatever you do. |
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| Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is. |
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| Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. |
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| George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but he also admitted doing it. Now, do you know why his father didn't punish him? Because George still had the axe in his hand. |
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| If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are. |
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| A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday. |
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| Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. |
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| Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. |
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| In politics people work hard to get a job and do little after they get it. |
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| If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it. |
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| Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse. |
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| Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth , communism is the equal distribution of poverty. |
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| Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. |
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| Anarchy may not be a better form of government, but it's better than no government at all. |
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| Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing. |
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| A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. |
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| Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. |
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| A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority. |
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| A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do. |
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| A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal. |
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| Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. |
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| A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist. |
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| A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat. |
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| "Political economy" is a phrase consisting of two incompatible words. |
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| If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever. |
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| All extremists should be taken out and shot. |
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| Never deprive someone of hope , it may be all they have. |
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| Here's to your love, health, and wealth , and time to enjoy each. |
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| For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know. |
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| Never ask the barber if you need a haircut. |
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| Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood. |
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| To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so. |
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| We should forgive our enemies, but only after they've been taken out and shot. |
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| There are two reasons for doing something: a really good reason and the real reason. |
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| Trust everybody, but cut the cards. |
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| Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it. |
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| Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger. |
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| People do not resist change , they resist being changed. |
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| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. |
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| Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. |
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| Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to. |
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| Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. |
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| Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative. |
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