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    I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. Alan Hovhaness

    Nature is my medicine. Sara Moss-Wolfe

    Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne

    I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs
     
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    Nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1635

    It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson


    'One man with courage makes a majority.' - Andrew Jackson


    In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams
     
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    If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. Mark Twain

    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
    -- Mark Twain

    I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill

    A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
    George Bernard Shaw
     
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    So true
     
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    A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy

    Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

    Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
    -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

    Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
     
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    Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

    I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

    If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke

    In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
     
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    "I was the kid that was a dreamer and now I don't believe."

     
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    Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
    -- Pericles (430 B.C.)

    No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)

    Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous

    The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
     
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    The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill

    The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
    -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

    There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain

    What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
     
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    A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have, including your guns. Be afraid. Be very afraid of big government. -- Thomas Jefferson

    It takes about two years to learn how to speak. Then it takes about sixty more years to learn when to speak and when to be quiet.

    The greatest evils in this world will not be carried out by men with guns but by men wearing suits and sitting behind desks. C.S. Lewis
     
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    You can seem like a millionaire to one person and a homeless person to the next. The ants think you are a giant and the trees don't even notice you. You think you have a boring life, but the next person might be striving for your lifestyle. Comparison is the thief of joy so stay kind and keep loving life. Life is all just a big game of perspective.


    Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t and the other half have nothing to say and keep on saying it. Robert Frost


    Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is what others think you are.
     
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    Some good ones there!
     
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