"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

Friedman, Milton on government
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on solitude
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"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

Congreve, William on secrets
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on government
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"The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold."

Boufflers on solitude
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"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."

Brisbane, Arthur on solitude
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"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

Crockett, Davy on government
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."

Huxley, Aldous on fame
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"I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

Huxley, Aldous on happiness
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"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance
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"I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. Its my job. "

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on uncategorised   

"Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on death   

"In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on cooperation   

"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on children
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"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on words   

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on wisdom   

"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art."

Carman, Bliss on originality   

"Do not do what you would undo if caught."

Arendt, Leah on honesty   

"Every man's memory is his private literature."

Huxley, Aldous on memory
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"It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged."

Huxley, Aldous on murder   

"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."

Huxley, Aldous on science
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"You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. [Leviticus 19:11]"

Bible on honesty
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"How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people."

Benson, Edward Frederic on honesty
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"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."

Huxley, Aldous on genius   

"The true measure of life is not length, but honesty."

Lyly, John on honesty
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"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."

Landesberg, Steve on honesty
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."

Kant, Immanuel on honesty   

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on honesty
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"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"

Huxley, Aldous on death
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"Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre."

Huxley, Aldous on death   

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."

Huxley, Aldous on consistency
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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Huxley, Aldous on work   

"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."

Huxley, Aldous on thoughts and thinking
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"The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same."

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"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."

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"Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed."

Rohn, Jim on influence
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