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“A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
― John D. Rockefeller

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.”
― Marcel Achard

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness”
― Confucius

“Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.”
― Confucius

“When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.

If you don't trust people,
you make them untrustworthy.

The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, "Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!”
― Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.”
― Lao Tzu

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

“Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Phoenix

“When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“World history is a court of judgment”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“A born king is a very rare being.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,
constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.
The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our
institutions.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The sage has in the world an appearance of indecision, and keeps his mind in a state of indifference to all.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“To understand the limitation of things, desire them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives it its power. if you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. if you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
― Lao Tzu

“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
― Steve Jobs

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
― John D. Rockefeller