Today Quotes
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Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.Seneca, 65 AD
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?Natalie Clifford Barney
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.Henry Ford
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.George Bernard Shaw
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America. . .
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.Gurdjieff
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen