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You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

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Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Desire Funny Glory Greatness Heart
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War

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