We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. - Ayn Rand

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People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny. - Richard Russo

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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. - Bono

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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. - William Shenstone

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. - Stanislaus I

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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. - Miguel de Icaza

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order. - Glenn Beck

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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become. - Felicity Huffman

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There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. - Pete du Pont

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. - Aristotle

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. - David Antin

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This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other. - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If faith is your motivation, share that. - Tim Kaine

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. - Evan Davis

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. - Irving, Washington

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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. - John D. MacDonald

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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. - Steve Martin

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