Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. ~Italian Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. ~Italian Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. ~Christina Romer
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look; that healthy equals beautiful. ~Victoria Principal
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death pays all debts. ~English Proverb
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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