"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

-- Albert J. Nock

#States Quotes #Testimony Quotes #Primitive Quotes

“I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.”
“Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe itâ€™s possible for you. And then close your eyes and every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what youâ€™re grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it. â€œJack Canfield”

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Apr 19, 2012
“Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”
“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”
“The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.”

Source : "The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate". In a Usenet message, January 29, 1992.
“I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.”

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