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| U.S. Budget Woes
I could end the [U.S budget] deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.
-- Warren Buffett on CNBC
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| Getting Ready
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Happy Man
The man who is happy is not he who is believed to be so but he who believes he is so.
-- Michel de Montaigne
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| Democrats and Republicans
When a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
When a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.
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| Future Spending
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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| Committed Opposition
Never waste your time explaining yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
-- dream hampton
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| Beginning
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
-- Richard L. Evans
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| Legitimate Rights
The principle of individual rights is the only moral base of all groups or associations. Any group that does not recognize this principle is not an association, but a gang or a mob.
-- Ayn Rand
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| Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
-- John F. Kennedy
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| Unpleasant Situations
Life is not about avoiding unpleasant situations; it is about making a profit from them.
-- Graham Cooke
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| Miracles
Miracles happen when all the puzzle pieces come close enough to touch.
-- Ron Rockwell
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| Living Life
There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein
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| Fiction vs. Non
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction.
-- Tom Wolfe
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| President, not Boss, Father
Comedian Chris Rock made news recently by saying something that I think he actually meant seriously. While voicing support for Obama’s gun control initiatives, Rock said we should listen to Obama, because the President isn’t just our boss, he’s also like our ...
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| Complain or Rejoice
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| Challenging Fear
Do one thing every day that scares you.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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| Mastering Fear
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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| When to Fight
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance ...
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| Social Justice Defined
Let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me, how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?
-- Walter E. Williams
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| Happiness
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy - a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction
-- Ayn Rand
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| True soldier
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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| Value of Dreams
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
-- Albert Einstein
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| Right and Risk
Do right and risk the consequences.
-- Sam Houston
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| Downfall of Socialism
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
-- Margaret Thatcher
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| Possessions
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.
-- George Carlin
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