"Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here."

-- Sam Rayburn

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“The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.”
“There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.”

Source : Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony
“Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.”

Source : Charles Adams (1993). “For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield
“Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.47
“I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.”
“Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.”
“I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.”
“Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival.”

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