Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental. ~Henry Rollins
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the "Bad Day at Black Rock" laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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In every head is some wisdom. ~Arabic Proverb
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