Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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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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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole. ~Peter Thiel
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does. ~Cassandra Clare
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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