favourite quotes

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who guards the guardians?

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If your income will be the same whether you work hard or not, why should you work hard?

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The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime

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Everybody is welcome in the house of the lord! You know, Jesus even befriend the whores and the feeble minded

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If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you understand two things: First of all, that he's a criminal, really, by any standard of decency, and he's a great liar

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I can do no wrong because I do not know what it is

[Bert]

No.

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No.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules, and rewards

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One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane

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I did not have, therefore, a searing ambition to be a member of Parliament. That might be because I went to a school called Seddon Tech, a school in those days—looking back now—for street kids, of whom not much was expected. But educational planners were wrong to set their sights for us so low, and some of our best teachers did not do so.

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we all have greatness, you just got to find the courage

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Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent

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when people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination

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When I looked upon that densely packed congregation of fighting men of the same language, of the same faith, of the same fundamental laws, of the same ideals ... it swept across me that here was the only hope, but also the sure hope, of saving the world from measureless degradation

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Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars

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If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

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If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

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Perfect weapons are overrated, a large number of good enough weapons will always secure victory

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Men trip not on mountains, but stumble on pebbles

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If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing

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Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal

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An honest public servant can't become rich in politics

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As long as there is just one heart in the world that yearns for freedom, evil cannot win because we will be free

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Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own