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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Unwillingness easily finds an excuse. ~English Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. ~Jewish proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen Proverb
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