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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
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Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16 -
Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - we had never been broken-hearted.
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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
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Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.
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