"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny"

-- Georg Buchner

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“You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. Itâ€™s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You donâ€™t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.”
“Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.”

Source : "Axl Rose to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: I'm Not Coming and Don't Induct Me" by Erik Pedersen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.
“Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.”
“It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.”
“My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.”
“Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 25, 2013
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
“I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom”

Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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