"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

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Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

Frederic Bastiat

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“All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.”
“Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.”
“All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.”
“I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.36, Penguin
“Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.”
“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”
“You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.”

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