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Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
"All money systems not backed by actual resources has failed in the past, if we keep eating the same food and making the same political choices as we have always done, we are also doomed to inherit a legacy of failure and misfortune". – R. F Knight
"If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.” – Václav Havel
'Being Loved By Her Is Like Winning The Lottery...Once You Win It Your Set'...Or Nah? – Fernando Lopez
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. – German proverb
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. – Albert Einstein
A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure. – Oscar Bonga Nomvete
a man is but a mere piece of meat marinated by the juices of his successes – anthony mojarro
A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. – Lord Halifax
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. – Mark Twain
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. – Richard Whately
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. – Albert Einstein
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. – Bryant McGill
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. – G. C. Lichtenberg
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. – Anonymous
A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind. – Eric Mascall
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. – Hippocrates
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. – Leo C. Rosten
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else – John Wayne
All moving objects, creatures with souls and mechandise that goes spoiled are by no means viable investments (From my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih) – Abderrahman Hassi
All moving objects, creatures with souls and mechandise that goes spoiled are by no means viable investments (From the wisdome of my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih) – Abderrahman Hassi
All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming. – Bryant McGill
Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. – Dejan Stojanovic

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