"The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate."

-- Bernard Williams

#Father Quotes #Men Quotes #Average Quotes

“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize”

Source : "Hank Johnson Worries Guam Could "Capsize" After Marine Buildup". www.cbsnews.com. April 1, 2010.
“Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your lower self. Should the Lord wish, He himself will pick you out and prompt you to be a source of guidance. He Himself shall endow you with the inner strength to endure the changes of fortune and will instill within you infinite wisdom.”
“Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.”
“I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.”
“When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.”
“Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin
“You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.”
“The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!”

Source : "Current Biography" by H.W. Wilson Company, (p. 562), 1945.

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