Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
~ Mark Twain
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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
~ Mark Twain
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Everybody is as unstable as water.
~ Joseph Heller
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The main point about liberalism is that it wants to go elsewhere, not to stand still.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Some people you shouldn’t kid, even if they deserve it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Leadership isn’t always straightforward, but a great leader should know when to be simple and direct.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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In the summer of 1789, as peasants attacked chateaus and revolutionaries vowed to “abolish privilege,” many members of the elite felt that their world had suddenly fallen apart. In truth, it had been disintegrating for decades. Today, as in the 1790s, an old order is ending in convulsions.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don’t research anything. If I need something, I’ll invent it.
~ Mickey Spillane
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I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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