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- Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
- Unknown
- Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
- Unknown
- For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!" - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
- William Strong
- That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
- Tim Freeman
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
- James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
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