"The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it."

-- Adam Smith

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“Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.”
“Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.”
“Donâ€™t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.”
“I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.”
“Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.”
“If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree...”
“An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 21, 2012

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