"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.”
“I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.”
“There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.”
“Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.”
“Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.”
“It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.”
“For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.”
“No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.”

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