Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. ~John Barrasso
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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A promise is a comfort for a fool. ~Proverb
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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I've just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can. ~Kimi Raikkonen
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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