It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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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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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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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. ~Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places. ~Fred Kent
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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The superior doctor prevents sickness; the mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; the inferior doctor treats actual sickness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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