"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York."

-- William Lyon Phelps

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“If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.”
“There are no free lunches on welfare.”
“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”

Source : "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.
“Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.”
“The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.”
“What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.”
“I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?”

Source : "Dangerous Habits, Part 1: The Beginning of the End (Hellblazer, Issue 41)". Book by Garth Ennis, May 1991.
“Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]”

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