Lending
It is better to give than to lend … and it costs about the same.
— Unknown
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Success is sometimes just having one more patch than you have holes in your innertube.
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— Aristotle
It does not require a majority to prevail
ByHeatherIt does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
— Samuel Adams
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ByHeatherIs God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
— Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)
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Individuality
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Running the Country III
ByHeatherDemocracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.