"How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable."

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Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.477

Augustus William Hare

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“I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.”
“I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.”
“Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.”
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”

Source : "In Praise of Dissent". New York Times, December 16, 1956.
“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”

Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press
“I think your ambition for something changes as you go.”

Source : Source: www.digitalspy.com
“In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.”

Source : "Ron Paul stands up for Assange" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. December 03, 2010.
“If you get married, you become vulnerable.”

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