"Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves."

-- Benjamin Constant

#Government Quotes #Cost Quotes #Affair Quotes

“This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!”
“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.”
“Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.”
“How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of oneâ€™s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)”
“To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.”
“I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.”
“Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before....”
“The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.”

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