"A still tongue keeps a wise head."

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Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2009). “863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges”, p.148, Ulysses Press

Barbara Ann Kipfer

#Wise Quotes #Tongue Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.”
“I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear. I think the government - and people in general - create scenarios people fear, because ultimately through fear you can control people. I wish we could live in a world where there would be no fear, but it's a driving force in many decisions people make these days, whether it's personal, economic, or even job-related. A lot of people stay out of fear in a job they hate.”
“You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.”
“Faith is the flip side of fear.”
“With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The less of the World, the freer you live.”
“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
“The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon ...”

Source : Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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