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The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have,
the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have,
the less self-reliant people will be.
Therefore the Master says:
I let go of the law,
and people become more honest.
I let go of economics,
and people become more prosperous.
I let go of religion,
and people become more serene.
I let go of all desire for the common good,
and the good becomes common as grass. - Lao Tzu
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start. - Nido Qubein
We need to believe we live in a predictable, controllable world, so we turn to authoritative-sounding people who promise to satisfy that need. - Philip Tetlock
Talent is long patience. - Gustave Flaubert
Inflation is the first panacea of a mismanaged government. War is the second. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a more permanent ruin. - Ernest Hemingway
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles Austin Beard
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. -- Robert Heinlein
What you resist persists.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -- C.S. Lewis
Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure. -- Bob LeFevre
The essential quality of a market system is not that it promotes greed, but that it renders greed harmless. -- Israel M. Kirzner
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing obsolete. -- Buckminster Fuller
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. -- Sir William Osler
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. -- William S. Burroughs
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Tacitus
In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. -- Iroquois Nation Maxim
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. -- Barbara Sher
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
No battle is ever won, he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. -- William Faulkner
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. -- Haruki Murakami
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. -- Thomas Sowell
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -- Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of ‘brainwashing under freedom’ to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments. -- Noam Chomsky
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. -- Thomas Mann
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. -- Calvin Coolidge
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. -- David Friedman
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life. -- Author unknown
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. -- Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen)
When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. -- Robert M. Pirsig
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Doctor Who
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. -- William Proxmire
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. -- Thomas Sowell
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. -- John D. Rockfeller
Whenever you fall, pick something up. -- Oswald Avery
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on the front door forever.
God Himself doesn't propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should
you?
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
People are attracted to you by what they see in you; they remain attracted to you by what you see in yourself. -- Mark Amend
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -- Ouida (pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee)
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -- Victor Frankl
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? -- Coach John Wooden
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H.L. Mencken
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H.L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H.L. Mencken
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey
Democracy is the road to socialism. -- Karl Marx
Because television can make so much money doing its worst, it often cannot afford to do its best. -- Fred Friendly
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. -- Peter Ustinov
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
The average American drives 29 miles a day, according to federal highway statistics. If you rode a bicycle just 29 miles per week for one year instead of driving, you'd single-handedly reduce auto emissions by 1,248 pounds, to say nothing of the 19 pounds' worth of calories you'd burn, or the $814 you'd save in gas and car maintenance and depreciation costs. -- Loren Mooney, Bicycling Magazine, September 2009
There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague
enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population. -- Paul Rusesabagina
Wars are the side-effects of nationalism. -- Yahia Lababidi
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. -- Sun Tzu
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. -- Karl Kraus
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. -- Ernest Benn
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. -- Eric Hoffer
I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
-- Ken Hakuta
Seventy percent of the oil burned in the U.S. is for transportation. If we boosted fuel efficiency standards to 40 miles per gallon, we could eliminate oil imports. -- Richard N. Goldman
Fight the tendency to quit while you're behind. -- Dave Weinbaum
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. -- Dave Weinbaum
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. -- Baltasar Gracian
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. -- Bryan White
The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can. -- Dave Weinbaum
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. -- Elaine St. James
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. -- Lao Tzu
Two things to remember in life: 1. Take care of your thoughts when you are alone. 2. Take care of your words when you are with people.
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown - as for children - the days are long with gathering of experience. -- George Gissing
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. -- George Pataki
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. -- Barbara Johnson
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once and move on. -- Homer Simpson
If you can control your attitude, you can control your life. -- Sid Caesar
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. -- Arthur Ashe
Genius has limits - stupidity does not.
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. -- Doctor Who, fictional English Sci-Fi character
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. -- William Butler Yeats
Failure is the path of least resistance.
If you choose to make the journey, you will always find the guides.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.
The wiser mind mourns less for what age take away than what it leave behind. -- William Wordsworth
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward. -- Soren Kierkgaard
Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn't have to repeat itself.
The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win. -- Zhuge Liang
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. -- Catfish Hunter
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -- Ouida
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. -- John S. Coleman
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. -- Andrew V. Mason, M.D.
I am braver than I was, because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks. -- from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -- Arnold Glasow
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -- Colette
Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk. -- Charan Singh
Our main business is not to see dimly what lies at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. -- William Shakespeare
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo DaVinci
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. -- Isaac Newton
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the
ability to learn from the experience of others, are also
remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
People forget that it is the eye which makes the
horizon.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. -- Voltaire
We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with
fear.
Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a
lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight
it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or
physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must
shine light on it. -- Shakti Gawain
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -- William Butler Yeats
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. -- Marcus Aurelius
Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas.
Success is the quality of your journey. -- Jennifer James
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it
will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -- Herm Albright
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -- David Dunham
Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
-- Norman Cousins
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
-- Jean Paul Richter
We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. -- Anaïs Nin
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. -- William Blake
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice -- George Jackson
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -- Steven Weinberg
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison
Silence is a text easy to misread. -- A. A. Attanasio
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. -- Pat Metheny
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