"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up."

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Laurence J. Peter

#Country Quotes #Kings Quotes #Government Quotes

“Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.”
“Just what I neededâ€”a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.”
“We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.”

Source : "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.”
“Probably, the secret is to be less complicated. We of course love to make complications - look at the way we live. We have this tremendous amount of information, and probably it is really not so necessary. Maybe if you just drink water, you are kind to people and walk a little bit it's all done already. But we cannot resist this sophistication.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
“Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.”
“One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .”

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