"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-- Iain Banks

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.”
“The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!”

Source : "A History of the Modern Age" by Albert Fried, Julian K. Prescott, (p. 175), 1971.
“The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.”
“But no man has a monopoly of conscience.”
“Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.”
“Good Day. We are privileged to live another day in this magnificent world. Today you will be tested.”
“It (marijuana) will still be legal under federal law.”
“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.”

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