15/05/2022
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There is a think line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humour and hurt. – Erma Bombeck
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14/05/2022
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Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved. – Margaret Thatcher
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08/05/2022
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I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing…. Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, “I told you so. – Erma Bombeck
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07/05/2022
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Virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence. – Aristotle
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01/05/2022
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Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. – Mother Teresa
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30/04/2022
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No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst from of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill
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24/04/2022
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding – Albert Einstein
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23/04/2022
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The whole problem with he world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. – Bertrand Russell
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17/04/2022
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Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith, it’s an element of faith. – Paul Tillich
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16/04/2022
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Optimism so the path that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller
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10/04/2022
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and on obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. – Mahatma Gandhi
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09/04/2022
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Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others – Sir Winston Churchill
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03/04/2022
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Happiness depends on being free and freedom depends on being courageous. – Marie Rutkoski
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02/04/2022
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It take a touch of genius and a lot of courage to more in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein
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27/03/2022
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaires but between authoritarians and libertarians – George Orwell
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26/03/2022
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We live in an age of emotional incontinence, when they who emote the most are believed to feel the most. – Theodore Dalrymple
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20/03/2022
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone gratitude. – Theodore Dalrymple
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19/03/2022
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All that is necessary for e veil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing. And most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish. – Theodore Dalrymple
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13/03/2022
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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The state has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more it cad do so only by borrowing you savings or by taxing you more. It is not good thinking that someone else will pay – that someone else is YOU. – Margaret Thatcher
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12/03/2022
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favour of a weapons-free world there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the others good intentions. – Margaret Thatcher
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