A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville

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We have all these politicians that claim they're pro-life and that say women should not be able to g

Author: Remy Ma
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If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be

Author: Andy Stanley
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The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

Author: George Alec Effinger
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Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if sh

Author: Martin Amis
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I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct

Author: Mary Rose O'Reilley
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Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smel

Author: Unknown
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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Author: Margaret Cavendish
Quote #345750

...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

Author: Valerio Varesi
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Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

Author: Lexi Blake
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When I found God forgiveness found me.

Author: Ron Baratono
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Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are e

Author: Benny Green
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There are enough blessings for everyone. You need to reach out for yours.

Author: Unknown
Quote #317360

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs un

Author: Mahnaz Afkhami
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I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someon

Author: Kate White
Quote #196830

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

Author: Lorrie Moore
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r

Author: Daniel Everett
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...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to g

Author: Bodie Thoene
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She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them l

Author: Jennifer E. Smith
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Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

Author: Jonathan Haidt
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Author: Jesse Ventura
Quote #137570

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defian

Author: George R.R. Martin
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Author: Amelia Barr
Quote #201786

Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a

Author: Robin McKinley
Quote #112291

Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, gliste

Author: Mary Ellen Hannibal
Quote #302127

Love ENDURES and works out ways of enduring the other stuff. As long as you can communicate you can

Author: Jay Woodman
Quote #471485

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Author: Hulk Hogan
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Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always t

Author: Charles Stanley
Quote #412382

A little work a little play To keep us going - and so good-day!

Author: Unknown
Quote #466696

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Author: Barry Mann
Quote #419777

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this

Author: Unknown
Quote #270789

Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate

Author: Larissa Ione
Quote #202610

I munched a carrot, then broke off a piece of bread and teamed it with another bite of salmon. Every

Author: Susan Fox
Quote #133969

Faith is timeless possibility.

Author: Unknown
Quote #334083

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six

Author: Chris Rock
Quote #498035

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quote #206433

Dream mean ,not sleeping and feel,dream is like you cant sleep untill fulfill

Author: MANNA
Quote #107594

To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #44848

You can only write well ,what you have lived.

Author: Unknown
Quote #176328

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

Author: Susan Cain
Quote #421292

When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

Author: La Rochefoucauld
Quote #202755

Before you can decide on your brand fonts, colors or imagery, let alone your messaging, you need to

Author: Amber Hurdle
Quote #370409

Maybe He’s already given you a miracle. You just can’t see it.

Author: Rachelle Ayala
Quote #186885

It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say thi

Author: Richard Flanagan
Quote #42017

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to

Author: Wilkie Collins
Quote #19015

Go past the insecurity. Go past the little voice that says doing that thing will hurt you. Instead l

Author: Rishank Jhavar
Quote #174922

When we set a goal we are fulfilling our destiny. Even if we do not reach it, we have changed our li

Author: Lawren Leo
Quote #341966

Running away from someone you love is a race you will never win.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #389365

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went,

Author: Philip Zaleski
Quote #231335

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in c

Author: John Ortberg
Quote #225043

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy

Author: Haruki Murakami
Quote #168779

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were g

Author: Charlene Costanzo
Quote #445247

At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room sing

Author: Desiigner
Quote #312613

Well, you only need the light when it's burning low. Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. Only

Author: Passenger
Quote #471648

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Author: Henry Ford
Quote #28172

The law of sacrifice postulates that we need to give in order to receive ... Cosmic Ordering says, r

Author: Stephen Richards
Quote #135021

Never take your loved ones for granted. You might lose them in a split of second and never got a cha

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Quote #226965

The idea that “work” competes with “life” ignores that “life” is actually the intersection and inter

Author: Derric Yuh Ndim
Quote #96341

Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or othe

Author: Herman Melville
Quote #436055

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Author: Amy Sedaris
Quote #175068

Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that ob

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #52866

What I want to impart through our correspondence is that no matter what anyone may be going through,

Author: Lorri Davis
Quote #197117

Sometimes the hardest goodbyes are the ones never said, the ones that always just hang there in the

Author: Virginia Brown
Quote #483718

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Author: Tina Charles
Quote #148232

A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: C

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #449605

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a

Author: Melvin Calvin
Quote #11731

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Quote #81639

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equ

Author: Milton Friedman
Quote #11177

Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!

Author: James J. Caterino
Quote #371890

Here we will see that pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to

Author: Ben Goldacre
Quote #28601

Who are you not to be yourself?

Author: Scott Stabile
Quote #257879

Why did Jesus Christ leave heaven’s gloryand enter this sin-infested world? For one reason: to make

Author: Billy Graham
Quote #395379

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand ov

Author: Zadie Smith
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He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art h

Author: C.R. Strahan
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And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver it is not just a nice thing to do if y

Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Quote #63811

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

Author: A. Edward Newton
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You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

Author: Ambrose Bierce
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The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the fe

Author: Sigmund Freud
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Your heartbeat is so different from his," I whisper it; he has to ask me to repeat myself. I explain

Author: Sana Lynn
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The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

Author: Novala Takemoto
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Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your des

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
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Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have informa

Author: Bob Costas
Quote #206486

Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.

Author: Elizabeth Craft
Quote #502706

With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies

Author: Martin Campbell
Quote #87257

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Author: Mae West
Quote #316601

Survival was an unpleasent thing to witness.

Author: Marian Keyes
Quote #271095

A man can not return anything except what is full.

Author: Davi Oliveira
Quote #137363

Moving the body resolves nothing- sadness, after all travels in the mind.

Author: Shahrukh Husain
Quote #327149

I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick c

Author: Kelly Corrigan
Quote #283293

If you're not quite cognizant of your madness, then you're deliberately blindfolded to your supposed

Author: Menna Anwar
Quote #461680

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be p

Author: John Wesley
Quote #489085

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a

Author: Andy Grove
Quote #459816

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the

Author: Dido Armstrong
Quote #48272

We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the lo

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #462592

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Author: Charles Kettering
Quote #383993

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.

Author: Brian Spellman
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...and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, 'And shut that window. I feel

Author: J.M. Barrie
Quote #400332

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festi

Author: Caitlin Moran
Quote #305214

Did you know that many people can not "see" the Man in the Moon? Their eyes and brains cannot put to

Author: Margaret Aranda
Quote #12954

A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception w

Author: Dennis Sharpe