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>“The beach is the place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's for real” - the Who

“Smart is better than lucky.” - Titanic Thompson

“Every large tree in the forest was once just a nut that held its ground.” - unknown and thanked

“Get up in the morning and look in the mirror. You're your own job security.” - Ross Perot

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.” - Friedrich Nietsche

“It is better to have been a bright shooting star than never to have dazzled the heavens at all.” - Seth Godin

“If you want to do something bad enough, even if it's improbably hard and very long, even if you have to do it one tiny piece at a time, stick with it. Don't worry about how long it takes and eventually you'll get there.” - Freddie Hoffman

“Cherish your candidness, develop your capacity to be vigilant, and follow your deepest convictions.” - Gerard Gueniot

“Never follow anyone. Be your own hero.” - Neil Peart

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” - unknown and thanked

“Success rests in having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be.” - George Sheehan

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” - Abraham Maslow

“The elephant keeps walking as the dogs keep barking.” - unknown and thanked

“The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.” - Arab proverb

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

“If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.” - James Altucher

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees”. Amelia Earhart

“No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.” Kevin Heath

“Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.” - David Hare

“Stop expecting your life to be easy and simple - I'm not entirely sure why we are here, but I'm almost certain it's not to take it easy.” - David Holland

“Most days, I feel like a guy who showed up to take a test and forgot his pencil.” - Peter Merrick

“Notice that those who defend a cause because they truly believe in it tend to be those who do not resort to emotional arguments or personal attacks. They argue logically and present facts. They're also open to discussion. Those who defend a cause as a way to feel better about themselves are more likely to respond with violence and aggression when you present a different opinion.” - Christian Thibideau

“Choose your battles. You can't win all of them. Win most of the ones you choose. When you lose one, advance in another direction.” - Gary North

“We are incredibly powerful when we strip away the bullshit.” - David Westgate

“Always be the stupidest person in the room. That is how to learn.” - Duane Asherman

“When you are learning, it is impossible to make a mistake, because you are learning. Until you know how, you're not making mistakes.” - Peter Urban

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Our life often revolves around health, money, relationships, and reputation. Instead, if life revolves around commitment, wisdom, service, and celebrations, then we automatically receive health, money, reputation and relationships improve.” - Rohit Bassi

“For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.” - Albert Broccoli

“The realization of personal power is the best insurance policy against manipulation, control and programming.” - Paula M Parker

“It is the mind, not society, that forges the manacles that keep people enchained to their misfortunes.” - Theodore Dalrymple

“Belief always trumps logic (and even science). You will never change someone’s mind just because you have facts and results on your side. People will stubbornly cling to a welded-in belief even when it clearly is hurting them.” - John Carlton

“People want to see the world really is the way they believe it to be. And they are willing to pay to have someone to agree with and tell them how to see the world.” - John Newtson

“Men in the mass will believe anything that promises to bring in the New Jerusalem, and the more idiotic it is the more eagerly they will embrace it. Nothing that is true ever convinces them. They demand illusion, and on the political plane they get it.” - H.L. Mencken

"We now empower stupid people and don’t listen to educated, informed experts anymore, because truth is no longer fashionable.” - Nick Beggs

“Different opinions give us insight. If no one ever challenges himself to look at the other side, how will he know that what he thinks is correct?” - Fred Crans

“It is always amazing how readily the consensus accepts such manifest nonsense. Wishful thinking prevails over serious analysis.” - Dr. Kurt Richebächer

“Morale is no substitute for victory.” - Fred Reed

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein

“Listen to everything I say, but do not look at me too closely; I am still working on this stuff myself.” - Zig Ziglar

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.” - Nikola Tesla

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” - Thomas Paine

“I'm not bothered by the musings of the lemurs. I am largely impervious to insult and thus, anger. Equally important is that I can accept criticism and learn from it.” - TC Luoma

“The first step in solving any problem is to admit you have the problem in the first place. Like, you can't lose weight, educate yourself, or fix a shit business unless you first accept you're fat, stupid, and a business failure, can you?” - Jon McCulloch

“Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit.” - Stephen D. Seymour

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” - Buddha

“Nothing is impossible for a person who refuses to listen to reason!” - Gary Halbert

“Nothing is confirmed until it is officially denied.” - Otto von Bismarck

“Nothing is born under the sun that doesn't die in the shade.” - Bill Bonner

“Nothing is often a good thing to do, and almost always a clever thing to say.” - Will Durant

“One of the hardest things in life is to appreciate the value of something you got for nothing.” - Larry Elder

“When you look around at what I call the Mediocre Majority, you'll find the one thing that appears universal with them is the lack of self-discipline.” - Dan Kennedy

“Truth overwhelms everything and everyone in its path. Good intentions coupled with stupidity or self-delusion are no match for truth. History has repeatedly demonstrated that time is extremely kind to truth.” - Robert Ringer

“Malice may attack truth and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” - Winston Churchill

“Truth is what stands the test of experience.” - Albert Einstein

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell

“Lies can’t fight the truth… it’s never even a contest.” - Jason Jones

“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.” - Stephen Leacock

“What absolutely astounds and disgusts me is that NOBODY wants to know the truth and will do ANYTHING to hide themselves from it. Sheeple.” - Kaitlyn Sabine

“A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.” - Baltasar Gracian

“I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.” - Dan Rather

“If you do not make the truth your own, someone else will make your truth for you, and that “truth” will almost certainly be a lie.” - Larken Rose

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector.” - Ernest Hemingway

“If you're going to pull my leg, at least yank the one in the middle so I enjoy it.” - Bryan Krahn

“The Internet is rife with misinformation, posters often having no credentials, no credibility, no intelligence, a clouded editorial lens that puts a spin on everything, a woeful inability to realize that beliefs aren't synonymous with facts, or a catastrophic combination of all these traits.” - T.C. Luoma

“The current obsession with climate change might never have happened if not for the internet, which has spread bad ideas the same way that promiscuity spreads sexually transmitted diseases.” - Lawrence Rogak

“9/11 is evidence that if the PR, branding and packaging are just right, and fear is cultivated properly, virtually anything is salable to the American public.” - Rand Clifford

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa

“Evil doesn't know how to deal with you when you laugh in its face and refuse to engage.

And it has even less to say when good-hearted men and women refuse to perpetuate its lies and stand up to unite in pursuit of a world that is right and just.

That is freedom. It is here. It is within each of us. It waits only for the decision to be expressed so its power can be realized throughout the world.” - Jason Leister

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.” - Eric Hoffer

“Newton's Inverse Square Law holds that gravity - and many other things - decreases by the square of the distance from the source. In a flash, we realized that this applied to useful investment intelligence too. The further you get from the facts, the less you know what is really going on.” - Bill Bonner

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” - William A. Ward

“A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires – that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still – can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires.” - Salim Y. Tannous

“What we anticipate rarely occurs; what we never expect invariably happens.” - Benjamin Disraeli

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” - Henry Ford

“You think you're gonna make it big without the cold bite of failure sinking its teeth into your arse? Right. Good luck with that. Failure is a big part of winning at anything -- sports, business, whatever it is you do. Fail hard and fail BIG. That'll make it all happen quicker.” - Ben Settle

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” - William Jennings Bryan

“You know the saying, ‘Get knocked down seven times, but get up eight’? I prefer to get up eight times and knock the fuck out of whoever knocked me down the first seven times.” - Jim Wendler

“There seems only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness. It appears to be the one and only problem permeating all creation. Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.” - Leopold Kohr

“Stupid bird, I should have never left you in charge.” - Homer Simpson

“You don't free enslaved people by enslaving free people. You work to make free people even freer.” - Perry Marshall

“If you pump a little iron and run three or four miles a day, you’ll unconsciously give off a different class of vibes that signal you’re not a vulnerable wounded fish and easy prey for all the two-legged sharks of the world.” - Gary Halbert

“There are plenty of fish in the sea. There are also oil spills and garbage barges, so some of those fish are diseased bags of toxic waste and negativity. You'd do well to wrap your shit if for some reason you get the idea to get between the sheets with one.” - unknown and thanked

“The most effective statisticians are the ones who aren’t afraid to tell a story, because anecdotes are the way we navigate the world.” - Seth Godin

“Rotten meat doesn’t just ruin future dinners; it disgraces the majestic animal that deserves every ounce of respect.” - Mark Huelsing

“Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals talk about logistics.” - Omar Bradley

“Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.” - Winston Churchill

“Only constant self-confrontation of responsibility reaps results.” - Bern Wheeler

“To master the self is more powerful than sovereignty over 10,000 armies. People scoff at the mere mention of self-help because they are ignorant of the subject, or they are afraid of its demands. Perhaps, a bit of both.” - Geoff Thompson

“The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.” - Sterling Sill

“The smarter you are, the more intricate a prison you can build in your own mind.” - Kai Nagata

“Illusions are painfully shattered right where discovery starts.” - Neil Peart

“When you realise you are a tiny part of the universal energy reflected in human form you will also realise you have that same infinite power to create and achieve beyond imagination. However, you also have the same infinite power to convince yourself you are a nobody and to drown in your own misplaced fears having only dreamt of life from a safe distance. To not allow your full potential to flourish is a crime against the evolution of humanity.” - unknown and thanked

“Sooner or later in life, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

“The consequences of not understanding what you are doing can be consequential.” - Fred Reed

“Earth: Lovely place, shame about the people.” - Stuart Wilde

“Fact: when you subsidize incompetence, the supply of incompetence rises.” - Gary North

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” - George S Patton

“If you concentrate on the mental aspect it is inevitable that the physical side will follow.” - Herb Elliot

“If you want what other people don't have, you have to do what other people don't do.” - Martin Rooney

“Such are the habits of the exceptional thinker: never let others tell you what you're capable of -- only you know what you're prepared to do.” - Mike Mahler

“The truth is, great achievement usually comes from those selfish and single-minded enough to express the gift that allows them to be great. Nobody ever talks about what great guys Picasso or Hemingway were.” - Steve Madden

“There's a big difference between understanding how experts think and being able to think like an expert.” Jonah Lehrer

“Everyone on Earth is here for a purpose, even if only to serve as poor example.” - Dan Kennedy

“Most people are walking around with an umbilical cord in their hand, looking for someone else to plug it into.” - Cavett Robert

“You can't help how you feel, but you can help how you behave.” - Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

“The busy man is never wise, and the wise man is never busy.” - Lin Yutang

Action drives out thought. - Richard Koch

“It is not events that shape your world, it is your thought processes.” - Robert Ringer

“It isn't what happens to us, it's what we think of it that screws us up.” - Marc MacYoung

“If you don't like the world you see, change the prescription of your glasses. There is nothing wrong with the world but your view of it.” - Chin-Ning Chu

“The quality of life you experience will be directly related to the quality of the questions you ask.” - Dorothy Leeds

“Your enjoyment of everything (life and business) is directly connected to your ability to allow all of it to move through you without resistance.” - Jason Leister

“If you don’t enjoy the journey the destination doesn’t matter.” - Dwight James

“Nothing happens until something moves.” - Albert Einstein

“Wait long, then move fast.” - Chinn Ho

“No one thinks of fighting when they see a topless girl. Maybe if you would show yours too we could save the world.” - Rodney Carrington

“Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought... or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions.” - Ayn Rand

“If you want to master the world, first master yourself. If you want to take on the world, start first by taking on the self.” - Geoff Thompson

“Most of us, in our lives, have things we aren’t proud of that we hide away, elements of our character — you may have issues with addiction, with alcohol, with porn.… Most of us find ways to hide the things we’re ashamed of. But in Muay Thai, when you fight, all your shit is exposed. Your character comes out in the ring, everyone can see your weaknesses and your flaws. And you need to face yourself.” - Clifton Brown

“Don't apologize for who you are or what you're trying to become. Just become MORE of what you already are. Be more of who you are and find the people in the world who want that.” - Perry Marshall

“Knowledge is not power unless it is used.” - Harvey MacKay

“The adage ‘knowledge is power’ has long been used to sell education, but it is a lie by omission. Knowledge is only powerful when used productively. It requires the willingness to use it.” - Dan Kennedy

“The statement 'Knowledge Is Power' is BS. Knowledge is not power. Rather ‘The acquisition of knowledge and the application of knowledge will make you a very powerful person for the rest of your life.’” - JP Maroney

“The important thing is our present direction and our present goal.” - Maxwell Maltz

“Whether the news is true or sad or horrible or horrific, it doesn’t matter to me. I don’t read the newspaper. They shit fear and then try to make it smell good so they can sell it to you for $1.25.” - James Altucher

“I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.” - Frank Zappa

“The rational mind is willing to listen to reason only after the emotional mind has said, "Okay." - Mark Ford

“There are two kinds of people in the world: the ones that protest and complain and want fairness despite never having earned it, and the ones that fight their asses off to be important and make a contribution. You have to earn the right to be treated fair. The people that have a problem with that are the scrubs.” - Jim Wendler

“There is no such thing as luck; only preparation meeting opportunity.” - Vince Lombardi

“There is no security in life, only opportunity.” - Douglas MacArthur

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks too much like work.” - Thomas Edison

“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.” - Igor Sikorsky

“The mental disability I referred to is an inability to realise that the only place where money comes before work is in the dictionary.” - Drayton Bird

“There's an old saying, "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser." Instead of bitching about it and pouting, most of us put our heads down and worked harder – that's how you properly channel setbacks and challenges. You're either a man of action or a bitch.” - Jim Wendler

“The true test of character is when you do something that you know you must do whether you feel like it or not-especially when you don't like doing it at all. Your ability to endure, to continue taking action, step-by-step, in the direction of your dreams, is what will ultimately assure your success. If you keep on keeping on, nothing can stop you.” - Brian Tracy

“Talent without work is useless, thank God.” - Mark Twain

“If people knew how hard I worked to acquire my mastery, they wouldn't think it worthwhile at all.” - Michelangelo

“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” - Leonardo DaVinci

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” - Winston Churchill

“Consider this: At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And with steam, you can power a train. One extra degree makes all the difference. So don’t give up because your efforts don’t seem to be producing results. Just keep going. The bullets may seem impossibly fast, but if you keep trying to dodge them, maybe one day you’ll find that you don’t have to.” - Hunter Nuttall

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.” - Benjamin Disraeli

“Sometimes you want to stand in a corner, and stare out the window. The problem is, when you can’t smoke, if you stand there and stare out the window on your own, you’re an anti-social friendless idiot. If you stand there and stare out the window with a cigarette, you’re a fucking philosopher.” – Rory Sutherland

“There is nothing greater in this world than the individual. For only individuals can think and act. Groups are only a number of individuals who exchange with one another. Therefore, we must never confuse ourselves by thinking in terms of group actions when we really mean the action of the individuals within that group.” - Harry Browne

“The more human your picture, the more human the response. Our minds like to look at things that match the way we see.” - Dan Roam

“There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.” - William James

“'I’ll believe it when I see it,' is no longer a useful thing to say. Truth is real, photos are not.” - Seth Godin

“Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.” - Mark Victor Hansen

“The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient tomorrow.” - Steve Jobs

“The yardstick for measuring success would seem to be not how much a man gets as how much he has to give away.” - Conrad Hilton

“As you climb the ladder of economic success, check to make sure it’s leaning on the right wall.” - Brookshire Group of Funds

“If there was one success formula that worked for everybody there’d be one book and nobody would have ever written another one.” - Dan Kennedy

“A good plan executed right now is far preferable to a perfect plan executed next week.” - George S Patton

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” — Mike Tyson

“During the darkest days of the early 1930s, broken men would take the elevator to the top of the First National Bank and jump off. One of them was heard to remark as he went by the 9th floor: “Well, I’m all right so far.” - William Bonner's grandfather

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; and expecting more than others think is possible.” - unknown and thanked

“The next time you’re on the receiving end of a rejection, simply tip your hat, thank your detractors, and show them what a big mistake they made. - Robert Ringer

“It is true that I am a Jew, and when my ancestors were receiving their Ten Commandments from the immediate Deity, amidst the thundering and lightnings of Mt. Sinai, the ancestors of my opponent were herding swine in the forests of Britain.” - Judah P. Benjamin

“Genius is the art of taking pains.” - Claude Hopkins

“Two or more sissies can never equal one pair of testicles. And by the way, these days, I see a lot of women who have more balls than the sorry men in their lives.” - Gary Halbert

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.” - Douglas Bader

“A man has two reasons for what he does – a good one – and the real one.” – J.P. Morgan

“A man has two reasons for what he does – the real reason – and the one he tells his wife.” - Mark Twain

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney.

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” - Eric Hoffer

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” - William James

“Nobody knows who is swimming naked until the tide goes out.” - Warren Buffet

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy is an emotion that, if you were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, would be 'atom bomb'.” - Sasha van Bon Bon

“Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note -- torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” - Henry Ward Beecher

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” - Ernest Hemingway

“He who catches the joy as it flies, lives in eternity’s sunrise, but he who binds himself to a joy, does the winged life destroy.” – William Blake

“You think people will change. You hope they will change. You expect them to mature, to learn from their mistakes. But they don't.” - Gene Simmons

“There is no use whatsoever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.” - Andrew Carnegie

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.” - Richard Bach Illusions

“The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” - Stephen Leacock

“Luck is for pussies. Goals are what gets things done.” - John Carlton

“Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.” - James Cash Penney

“Hard work always looks like luck to saps.” - Dashiel Hammett

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.” - Calvin

“This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...the being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Anger is a gift” - Zack Del la Rocha

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” - Mark Twain

“Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” - The Buddha

“One crack in the saddle is plenty.” - Alan Ardizone

“You can't ride two horses with one ass.” - Martin Rooney

“We learn nothing if we do not face the demons sent to challenge us.” - Kwai Chang Caine

“'Why?' is the world's best teacher, a one-word university more valuable than a king's library. As far as learning is concerned, a day without raising a good “why?” is a wasted day.” - Gary Bencivenga

“If being lean, healthy and looking good was easy, going to Wal-Mart wouldn't be such a frightful visual experience.” - Shelby Starnes

“Life is 10 percent what has happened to us and 90 percent the value we assign to it.” - unknown and thanked

“The art of salesmanship is the ability to convert a good story into a stream of income.” - Gary North

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” – Philip K Dick

“Use words you would expect to find in a fifth-grade reader. Your average American is about 13 years-old mentally.” - John Caples

“The palest of ink is better than the clearest of memories.” - Tommy Kono

“It’s imperative that you stretch your brain and keep the myelin proteins constantly searching for new neural pathways.” - David Ledoux

“Fear of the dark is how the dark keeps you prisoner. It’s the straightjacket of denial.” - Stuart Wilde

“Cross the chasm of fear and doubt in one leap. It can't be done in two.” - Lawrence Bernstein

“People who achieve do so almost always because they fear to fail. And people who fail usually do so because they're cocksure -- not worried about failing, and so don't try hard enough.” - Drayton Bird

“Don't let fear convince you that you're too weak to have courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.” - John McCain

“Fear is a cowardly bully. Stand up to it, and it runs.” - Gary Bencivenga

“Courage – true courage – means being scared to death and then doing what needs to be done anyway.” - Clayton Makepeace

“I'm positive only in that I intend to make the best of whatever happens. The road ahead still slopes downward, but not so steeply as to make our brakes useless.” - Richard Grant

“I challenge any man or woman to deny my right to exist with dignity.”- Gerald Archembeau

“The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.” - Brian Tracy

“We learn, when we learn, only from experience, and then we only learn from our mistakes. Our successes only serve to reinforce our superstitions.” - Arthur Jones

“Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.” - Douglas Bader

“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.” - Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“We tend to judge people before we even know them. We judge them with our mind, but can only know them with our heart. Instead of opening our hearts to one another we exercise our minds in front of each other. Why?” - a Russian grandmother

“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” - Yosemite park ranger

“There is no such thing as foolproof design, because fools are endlessly inventive.” - unknown and thanked

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” - Oscar Wilde

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only completely consistent people are the dead.” - Aldous Huxley

“Only dead fish swim with the stream.” - Malcolm Muggeridge

“Ideological consistency imposes a high price with few immediate benefits. This is why so few people pursue it.” - Gary North

“If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.” - Robert A. Heinlein

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When someone else's opinion or view makes you really angry or uncomfortable, it's especially important to pay close attention.” - Bre W

“You are entitled to have any opinion you like about anything you choose. But you're not entitled to have anyone else give even the remotest hint of intestinal gas about it, let alone an actual shit.” - Jon McCulloch

“The problem with today's world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but, crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably NONSENSE.” - Brian Cox

“You're only friend is a buck. And the more bucks ya got, the more friends ya got.” - Fred Flintstone

“If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough.” - Mario Andretti

“A basic rule of history is that the inevitable eventually happens. If you keep on smoking in the powder magazine, you will at some point blow it up. No one can predict the specific event or its timing, but everyone can see the trend and where it is leading.” - William S. Lind

“Everything that should happen eventually does. But fortunes are lost betting when and how. The market can fail to do what it is supposed to do longer than you can stay solvent.” - Bill Bonner

“If you build a better mousetrap and neglect marketing, you'll die alone and broke with a garage full of mousetraps.” - Mac Ross

“Next time you're in your car, at 80 Kilometers per hour, strip down to your underwear and jump out. That's what it's like to crash in a professional bike race.” - Jonathan Vaughters

“Most people cannot write well because they cannot think clearly. They cannot think clearly because they lack the brains.” - H. L. Mencken

“Where’s that time travel machine I was promised by science fiction? Where’s all that cloning and body manipulation I was promised by Blade Runner? Cyborgs! Why am I not battling cyborgs at this very moment instead of writing this shit?!” - Scott Christensen

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” - Albert Einstein

“There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the schoolboy who said, “Faith is believing what you know ain't so.” - Mark Twain

“A hack becomes a kluge, becomes a fix, becomes a solution.” - Shawn Fitzpatrick

“The measure of mental health is the dispostion to find good everywhere.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.” - P.J. O'Rourke

“Grand masters will agree even on the differences. Their students will keep fighting even over the similarities.” from RMA-Look From Inside

“Wild Bill, or any other man killed by mistake in our columns, will be promptly resuscitated upon application by mail.” - Kansas City Examiner/Herald

“Freedom of the press is all too often a license to defraud the intellects of the reading public.” - Kurt Saxon

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.” - A.J. Liebling

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” - George Santayana

“All unhappiness is caused by attachment.” - Buddha

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow, what a ride!” - Peter Sage

“We don't need lots of data to convince us of what we know from experience - that all that expensive chemical and surgical intervention at the end of life improves only the lives of those collecting the bills, not those paying them.” - Michael Masterson

“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself. You'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” - Johnny Carson

“It's been my experience that most discarded cigarette butts still have a couple good puffs left on them.” - Mitchell Kobriger

“Marshall McLuhan predicted a change in human consciousness -- in the fundamental ways people feel about things and process ideas. This is already taking place. The mindless values of Hollywood are fast becoming world values, and cherished concepts such as personal privacy will soon be antiquated notions of the past.” - Early to Rise

“The media reports car crashes, not cars that DON'T crash.” - Larken Rose

“Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.” - Bob Knight

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” - Helen Keller

“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.” - Frank Deford

“I'm not certain of my existence, only my intentions.” - from the movie South of Heaven, West of Hell

“When it is not necessary to do a thing, it is necessary not to do it.” - Robert Shea (Shike)

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. You must be the change you wish to see.” - Mohandas Ghandi

“Character is the ability to follow through on a commitment, after the mood in which the commitment was made has passed.” - Stephen Covey

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” - H. G. Wells

“If you aim at nothing you will hit it.” - unknown and thanked

“After hydrogen, stupidity is the most common thing in the universe.” - Albert Einstein

“The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.” - John Paul Stapp

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - Michelangelo

“I find that people who are successful have mastered their daily shit and risen above it.” - Mitchell Lucas

“The only difference between those who “make it happen” and those who don't is FOCUS and ACTION. Nothing more, nothing less.” - Matt Furey

“The Universe is a practical joker.” - Barry Longyear (Enemy Mine)

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.” - unknown and thanked

“Advertising is much like war, minus the venom.” - Claude C Hopkins

“Don’t worry about offending the dogs when you’re selling to the foxes.” - Gary Halbert

“The trouble with most clients – actually, most people – is that they mistake change for improvement.” - Drayton Bird

“Those who do not find time for everyday health, must one day sacrifice a lot of time for illness.” - Klaus Ferlow

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing; after they've tried everything else.” - Winston Churchill

“There is always another way.” - Kwai Chang Caine

“Without the dark there can be no light.” - from the movie Legend

“If you can't enjoy, if you can't look inside yourself and smile - lighting up all of your insides - then you'll never be able to smile at anyone else. One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.” - Stephen Altucher

“What's the use of being an adult if you can't act like a child once in a while?” - Dr Who

“Every man in America, at one time or another, has had the secret desire to kick a child in the ass.” - W.C Fields

“We still try because we must.” - Tiger Woods

“I will persist until I succeed.” - Og Mandino

“Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two.” - Keith Bontrager

“Sexy. Smart. Sane. Pick two.” - John Carlton

“It is unwise to enter into a pissing contest with a skunk.” - Aristotle Onnassis

“The more human your picture, the more human the response. Our minds like to look at things that match the way we see.” - Dan Roam

“When hunting ducks, one must go where the ducks are.” - Erwin Rommel

“Rommel, I read your book.” - George Patton

“If you try to chase two rabbits you won't catch either one.” - Ed Kovarski

“Self-deception is the anaesthetic of life, while God is carving out our beings.” - H.G. Wells The Wheels of Chance

“Man's capacity for self-deception is what generates irrational decisions.” - Peter Bernstein

“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.” - Proverbs 26:11

“Imagination is the elixir of life.” - P.T. Barnum.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Alfred Einstein.

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” - Muhammad Ali

“To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.” - Cynthia Ozick

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” - Mark Twain

“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” - L. Frank Baum

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” - William Blake

“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.” - Ray Bradbury

“Imagine a little bit more, work a little bit less, and begin attracting what you want out of life instead of struggling for it.” - Matt Furey

“Physical strength can develop mental and spiritual strength.” — Jim Wendler

“Working hard, with maximal effort, is about one thing and one thing only: mental focus. Don't think about anything else other than your workout. Don't allow pain to stop a set if you still have something in the tank.” — Christian Thibaudeau

“The next time you're tempted to say you "can't," remember that what you're really saying is, "I don't want to.'” — Craig Weller

“The definition of an asshole is a guy who refuses to believe what he sees.” - Stephen King Thinner

“Honesty without compassion is merely disguised hostility.” - Dan Ricottone

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

“A plant, as far as I’m concerned, has as much of a soul as I do.” - Chuck Barris

“If you look like food, you will be eaten.” - Clint Smith

“What has happened in the past will happen again and again and again. This is because human nature does not change, and it is human emotion that always gets in the way of human intelligence.” - Jesse Livermore

“Men's natures are alike... it is their habits that divide them.” - Confucius

“The future is predictable, but who knows when it will happen.” - William Bonner

“Greed is neutral. Everyone is "greedy," which is what drives a free market. It's the desire of some people to commit aggression against others - either for power or financial gain - that is the problem. I'll say it again: Mankind is an experiment that failed.” - Robert Ringer

“Anyone who can't use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate, and should not be allowed to vote.” - Robert A. Heinlein

“Somebody needs to invent a CD that fits into an 8-track cartridge. Some of us don't plan on upgrading just yet.” - Mitchell Kobriger

“You can get whatever you want, if you help enough other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar

“The MAN INSIDE could not move to fulfill your purpose, that is why you fell down. No other reason in the world.” - George Jowett

“Why bring yourself down; other people will do it for you.”- Eva Kanovich

“‘Tis the mind that makes the body rich.” - William Shakespeare

“Remember, the mind controls the body; the body does not control the mind.” - C.J. Carraci

“It's amazing how much better an athlete you can be when you aren't stoned.” - Chris Bartl

“There are no answers, only choices.” - from the movie Solaris

“The Supreme Being gave you senses and a brain. Don't anger her by not using them.” - Matthew Grimm

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.” - Samuel Johnson

“There are six million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” - Rudyard Kipling

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.” — Albert Einstein

“If you believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in kindergarten playing with blocks, you'll get a rough idea of what life in a corporation is like.” - Lee Iaccocca

“Somebody once said that a corporation does not have a soul. I think few of them have anything resembling a brain.” - Drayton Bird

“Scratch a high-functioning, rich, good-looking and respected CEO… and you’ll find, just under the veneer, a 3rd grader at recess. With all the immaturity, selfishness and social cluelessness that implies.” - John Carlton

“When you see a wide-open field with no competition, you can be 99 percent sure that there is no demand.” - Gary North

“A corporate world without lies would collapse as fast as a world without money.” - Lucy Kellaway

“Money will solve problems that not having money creates.” - John Carlton

“To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade-first. Best handle it very carefully, sir, very slowly while you puzzle what it’s for.” - Richard Bach The Bridge Across Forever

“You can make excuses or you can make money. You can't keep a winner from winning and you can't keep a loser from losing.” - Doberman Dan

“If it works, work with it. If it doesn't, work against it. If it works you over, abolish it.” - Angel Shamaya

“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.” — Benjamin Jowett

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” — Robert Heinlein

“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” — H. L. Mencken

“Rock'n Roll is like chasing parked cars; ya can't do it forever” - David Lee Ego

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” - Christopher Reeve

“It’s not the accomplishment of the dream that makes you happy… it’s the journey.” - Doberman Dan

“You just can't avoid some trouble in life. There's a cliché that says, “Into each life some rain must fall” - but why open your umbrella while the sun is shining?” - Harry Lorayne

“When I die, I want to go like the person who died peacefully while sleeping, not screaming like the passengers in his car.” - unkown and thanked

“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

“Everything you keep in between your ears, you don't have to carry in a suitcase and no one can ever take away from you.” - Karl Gotch's grandfather

“You can't make a world to order, like a hotel services's food.” - Pye Dubois

“You cannot order brilliance, you can only deliver it.” - Geoff Thompson

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.” - Ayn Rand

“There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. Most men can have the same experience if they choose.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and a conscientious stupidity.” — Martin Luther King

“Education and intelligence are not so closely related as many people seem to believe. I've learned that one cannot necessarily expect a Ph.D. to be any wiser than Joe Sixpack. In fact, my personal observations have led me to believe that many formally educated individuals have assimilated information greater than their intellect has ability to properly integrate.” - Mark Goodson

“When the tough get going, the weak get screwed.” - from the movie Head Office

“Shrinking violets get trampled.” - John Forde

“The ant is walking” - from the movie Wings of Courage

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” - George Orwell

“Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.” - Ambrose Bierce

“Actually I rather like Buddhism. It seems the only major faith that has never thought that slaughtering the unenlightened is a good way to spread the word.” - Drayton Bird

“It doesn't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires to people's minds.” — Samuel Adams

“When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.” - Dennis Eckhardt

“When it's all said and done and your business is dead and buried, it's only your family cares if you live or die; everyone else is a Christmas card.” - from the movie Blood, Guts, Bullets, & Octane

“If there's any justice at all, it's that tragedy plays no favorites. It's raw and it's unkind in its evenness. And that's something we're forced to accept, in the end.” - John Forde

“Everything is new if you are ignorant of history. That is why ideas that have failed repeatedly in centuries past reappear again, under the banner of ‘change,’ to dazzle people and sweep them off their feet.” - Thomas Sowell

“The biggest lesson of history is people don’t learn from history. And history shows us that even the people that know history, don’t learn from history.” - Jim Rogers

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana

“The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.” - Harry Truman

“Making history is more fun than repeating it.” — Angel Shamaya

“Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.” — Charlton Heston

“The problem revolutionaries have always had with their attempts to reinvent human nature is that the butterfly of beautiful brave new expectations never survives collision with the windshield of reality.” - John Thompson

“No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person.” — Karl Hess

“We hear of crack cocaine babies born with the addiction of their mothers. But the social impact of that addiction is hardly a measurable phenomenon compared to the addiction of each generation of taxpaying workers. Each generation believes that it has a valid mortal claim on the output of the ones coming up. A legal claim will not knowingly be surrendered when it is perceived as a moral claim.” - Gary North

“There are few things more destructive than an unsound idea persuasively expressed.” - Bill Bernbach

“Any code of laws that has been set down in the past in order to guide the future organization of a nation is vulnerable to being rewritten by the dominant political or cultural forces of a later period. These forces will inevitably attempt to rewrite that document to give themselves absolute and unlimited power to rule as they see fit, while also providing themselves with immunity from any of its laws.” - Daniel Greenfield

“A giraffe is a horse designed by committee” - unknown and thanked

“Society does not want free men. They talk freedom, democracy, anything they want. But they don't want free men. Society wants conditioned men… men who march in step.” - Henri Charriere

“It may be true ... that “you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.” - Will Durant

“The number of murders, massacres, and whole wars fought in the name of a peaceful carpenter who taught people to turn the other cheek and forgive just shows you how capable of willful ignorance and self-serving myopia people are.” - Doug Casey

“Avaricious politicians, like ill-mannered dogs, try to mount every issue that crosses their line of vision. The less they know, the safer all of us will be.” - George Jonas

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller

“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.” — Brendan Behan

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” — Ronald Reagan

“Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.” - H. L. Mencken

“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.” - Joseph Sobran

“If you want to build an escape-proof prison, there is a way. Just don't tell the prisoners that they're in jail. Make them compete with each other for life sentences...Call it home.” - Chad Oliver

“Everything the State says is a lie, everything it claims to own it has stolen, and every act undertaken to enforce state edicts is a crime. The disappearance of a law enforcement agency enhances the personal security of those residing in any community where such a blessed development occurs.” - William Norman Grigg

“I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.” - John Wayne

“There is no one more persistent than a liberal with a bad idea. He knows his intellectual and moral superiority make him infallible, so he easily convinces himself there is nothing wrong with his idea; it is the world that is mistaken. Even the facts cannot be the facts when they disagree with his idea. So he forges ahead against all reason, attempting to remake the world until it accepts he was correct all along.” - Lorne Gunter

“I am a sovereign individual and no man or group of men (including jack booted armed thugs holding up a piece of paper THEY created that says they have power over me) has the right to control me. To believe otherwise makes me someone's slave.” - Doberman Dan

“The trouble with politicians besides congenital dishonesty is that most have done little or nothing in life but politics, so they have no idea how anything works. They think "policies", "initiatives" and "strategies" are all you need. They mistake looking good for doing good.” - Drayton Bird

“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.” - George Bernard Shaw

“In government, the scum rises to the top.” - Friedrich Hayek

“The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” - Thomas Jefferson

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” — H. L. Mencken

“Politicians always lie. Their job is to lie. We pay them to lie. We re-elect them for lying well. The question for each voting bloc is this one: “Which political party's lies seem to favor us?” Politics is about wealth- redistribution by force, and the greatest tool of political wealth-redistribution is the lie. “Everyone will retire in comfort.” “We will not break our promise to our senior citizens.” “The Social Security trust fund is secure, and the fact that it is filled with IOU's has nothing to do with anything.” “Taxes will not go up.” “We will not go to war.” And so on. All lies. We know they are lies, and we select which lies we will vote for, believe in, and invest in terms of.” - Gary North

“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” - Will Rogers

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” — Edward R. Murrow

“Government is always for the benefit of the governors, at the expense of the governed.” - Robert Shea (Shrike)

“The Internet was an unintended consequence of a government program to deal with the potential devastation imposed by another government program.” - Gary North

“What happened to America’s former superbly-trained intellectual class, once patriotic and reflexively intelligent? That generation is gone, their dull replacements a zombie army of unthinking leftists simply following State command.” - Daniel Greenfield

“The myopia of America is our death knell.” - Winn Schwartau

“When you say no to your opportunity to speak, you are also, unequivocally saying no to your opportunity to make a difference. Period.” - John Bates

“Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.” - Janice Brown

“There is no government so small that it cannot kill or impoverish innocent people. As a result, there are far too few people who are sufficiently brave and principled to speak the truth about the behavior and ambitions of those who presume to rule them.” - William Norman Grigg

“But within whose definition of safe limits? After all, the U.S. government also thinks it’s perfectly safe for you to drink fluoride, microwave your body at TSA checkpoints, eat genetically modified organisms, get yourself repeatedly injected with chemical adjuvants in vaccines and drink aspartame. Aw, c’mon. What’s a little radiation on top of all that?” - Mike Adams

“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.” — Alexander Tyler

“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.” - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“The whole democratic system is supposed to keep the vast majority in line. You vote for the people that will rob you, and the very fact that you voted is used as justification for the robbery. Furthermore, the scheme is assigned a euphemism that makes it sound as if it were dropped from the heavens. It’s often referred to as a “sacred” “right” to vote. From the perspective of a master, there’s nothing better than having a continent of laboring servants who choose and accept their plight. Better yet, if the laboring servants believe that they are free.” - Chris Rossini

“My political opinions lean more and more towards anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control, not whiskered men with bombs). The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” - JRR Tolkien

“If the people of the United States ever allow the banks to issue their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until the children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks, and returned to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” - Thomas Jefferson

“What could be sadder than millions of people striving for a lifetime to reach the American dream and then discovering that the “golden years” are just a fantasy, their wealth having been sucked away by decades of inflation and taxes so that politicians and bureaucrats could squander it to grease the skids for their own political success.” - David Galland

“The fact that Obama became president and brought openly Marxist people into his administration doesn't say so much about him as it says about the effects of decades of brainwashing of the American people by the education establishment, media and the intellectual elite.” - Walter E. Williams

“This basket of currencies will, hopefully, keep the dollar from collapsing quickly, which is what everybody fears, and it will give everyone time to adjust. To tell you how well this will work out, I remind you that every time somebody on an episode of Perry Mason needed “just a little more time,” somebody always got killed.” - the Mogambo Guru

“Whether ancient or modern, monarchy or republic, coin or paper, each nation descends pretty much the same slippery slope, expanding government to address perceived needs, accumulating too much debt, and then repudiating its obligations by destroying its currency.” - James Turk and John Rubino, The Coming Collapse of the Dollar.

“For me the ultimate form of cash is gold since I believe gold is money, with one big distinction: it is not a floating abstraction created by a bankrupt government supported only by legislation and the confidence of a brainwashed population.” - Paul van Eeden

“The goal of all banking is to transfer wealth from the borrowers to the bankers.” - Gary North

“The golden hand of the entrepreneur has been replaced with the leaden hand of the regulator, attached to the grasping fingers of the scavenger.” - George Jonas

“The trouble with practical jokes is that they often get elected.” - Will Rogers

“Our world is divided into two types of people. Those who make the money. And those who piss it away. The politicians and the union leaders have one thing in common. They are pissers, not earners.” - Drayton Bird

“‘All these people sacrificed so that America could be free and independent’ is the standard line. But after the British ran through the briars and fled through the brambles down in New Orleans in 1814, never was our freedom or independence really in doubt, except perhaps in the War Between the States, and then it was the side fighting for independence that lost.” - Bill Bonner

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives…A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” - Smedley Butler

“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.” - Ambrose Bierce

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” - Voltaire

“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

“All warfare is based on deception.” - Sun Tzu

“Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.” - John Stockwell

“If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.” - Ludwig von Mises

“When the power of love overtakes the love of power, then the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix

“I am not one of those who see war as a cricket match where you first give anything to defeat the opponent and then shake hands.” - Douglas Bader

“When the South fired on Fort Sumter, killing no one, Abraham Lincoln blockaded every Southern port, sent General Sherman to burn Atlanta and pillage Georgia and South Carolina, and General Sheridan to ravage the Shenandoah. He locked up editors and shut down legislatures and fought a four-year war of reconquest that killed 620,000 Americans. Good thing we didn't have an 'international community' back then. The Royal Navy would have been bombarding Lincoln's America.” - Patrick Buchanan

“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” — Barry Goldwater

“Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” — P.J. O'Rourke

“Anyone who likes big government should go to prison for a while and see what it's like when they run everything.” - Larken Rose

“A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State.” - Chuang-tzu

“Everyday small time criminals get busted — drug pushers, hookers, purse snatchers and small-time robbers — but wear a white shirt, steal a few million dollars and have friends in high places, and you can stay at home.” - Sydney Williams

“Government must be restricted to those activities which can be entrusted to the worst citizens, not the best.” - William Volker

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” — Milton Friedman

“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.” - Lysander Spooner

“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.” - F. A. Hayek

“Politicians have long led us to believe that individual freedom and self-reliance can only bring chaos, while taxation and centralized government planning are essential to impose order. In truth it is liberty and the competitive free market that gives us a productive and harmonious economic order; it is government and confiscatory taxation that bring chaos, corruption, and arbitrary power.” - Charles Burris

“Canadian politicians, unlike Americans or those who've actually lived under oppression, value peace higher than freedom. Peace-seekers need reminding that cattle on a well-run farm have the ideal peaceful existence; abundant food, warm accommodation, no threats -- until the day they go to the slaughter house. That's not the sort of peace most of us value.” - Peter Worthington

“We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.” - Helen Keller

“You know, comrades, that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” - Josef Stalin

“The instrument by which [government] must act are either the authority of the laws or force. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!” - Alexander Hamilton

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” --George Washington

“It seems almost as if we did not want to understand the development which has produced totalitarianism because such an understanding might destroy some of the dearest illusions to which we are determined to cling.” - F. A. Hayek

“There should come a time when the victims of a myth should figure out that they are the victims of a rich and powerful ruling class, which hires the teachers and screens the textbooks to keep the voters docile. But this dawning of enlightenment has yet to come.” - Gary North

“You are not innocent until proven guilty; you are innocent until proven bankrupt.” - Johnny Cochrane

“A leftist is somerone who believes that economic growth is based on an IRS agent sticking a gun in your belly and saying, "Fork it over, fat boy: the nation deserves it.’ He believes that the state can fix the free market. He believes that the FED should lower interest rates. He believes that counter-cyclical policies designed by Hank Paulson will fix things better than a 50% tax cut and freezing of all purchases of debt by the FED. He may not have voted for Obama. He still voted for Goldman Sachs. That person may be a colleague, a friend, or your nephew. He is a leftist.” - Gary North

“Socialism, no matter how well-intentioned, shortly degenerates into taking money from people who have earned it and redistributing it to people who have not, in a way that soon becomes arbitrary.” - Conrad Black

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” - Margaret Thatcher

“This is the blind spot of big-government and socialism promoters: The people you trust to distribute everyone's money "to the needy" always steal, waste and steer the majority of the money to friends and cronies who increase the leaders' power.” - Mike Johnson

“Mother Nature can be cruel, but even at her worst, she is no match for government.” - Lew Rockwell

“The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift - is taxes.” — William Feather

“A fine is a tax for breaking the law; a tax is a fine for obeying the law.” - unknown and thanked

“Socialism has nowhere to progress but Communism.” - John Coleman

“For a fact to a liberal is like Kryptonite to Superman.” - Larry Elder

“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.” — H. L. Mencken

“Look, you are either 100% dedicated totally and completely to freedom or you are not. There is no in-between. When you start making rules that marginalize habits and rights of people, then you are exhibiting Communist tendencies.” - Mike Rogers

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw

“The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.” — H.L. Mencken

“They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” - Benjamin Franklin

“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.” - Jeff Cooper

“Can our form of government, our system of justice, survive if one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it?” — Harlon Carter

“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” - Mark Twain

“When the Legislature is set to convene, every village is about to lose its idiot.” - Molly Ivins

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.... We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.” — Ronald Reagan

“The difference between Congress as envisioned by the Founding Fathers and the Congress we have today is one of them inspires patriots to support it, and the other inspires patriots to buy extra ammo.” — Angel Shamaya

“There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” — Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

“The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. Throughout history, governments have used violence, intimidation, coercion, and mass murder to enforce this system. But governments' first line of "defense" is always a blizzard of lies - about its own alleged benevolence, altruism, heroism, and greatness, along with equally big lies about the "evils" of the civil society, especially the free market.” - Thomas DiLorenzo

“Everyone knows that the State claims and exercises monopoly of crime ... and that it makes this monopoly as strict as it can. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien. Of all the crimes that are committed for gain or revenge, there is not one that we have not seen it commit – murder, mayhem, arson, robbery, fraud, criminal collusion and connivance.” - Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.” - Frederick Douglass

“If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.” - Joe Sobran

“Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, ‘See, if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’” — Harry Browne

“Keynesianism is a fraud. Supply-siderism is a con. The dollar itself is a scam. All were developed by people with good intentions. But these good intentions not only paved the road to Hell, they greased it. There was no point putting on the brakes. Once underway, there was no stopping it.” - William Bonner

"The results of government economic planning will always be the opposite of the official policy of the planners." - Ludwig von Mises

“The evils...of welfarism are veiled and tend to be postponed.... The effect of welfarism on freedom will be felt later on — after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.” — Barry Goldwater

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." — Thomas Sowell

“All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis

“Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest accumulation of depotentiated social units.” - Carl Jung

“The only way a government of, for, and by the people can be controlled by the people, is to throw the elected bums out of office when they enact laws or policies the people don’t want. When policies that carry the weight of law are enacted and enforced by appointed professionals, the people no longer have the means to control their government.” - Henry Lamb

“Keep in mind that progressivism is a kind of self-imposed mental disability wherein the progressive convinces himself, without evidence or logic, that government action is the solution to all human problems and therefore becomes blind to any evidence that government itself may be the culprit. Also, keep in mind that in order to distract attention away from prior progressive government failures, the progressive instinctively resorts to a set of pre-determined non-governmental or societal scapegoats to be blamed for any new problems that come along." - James Ostrowski

“There will always be a sociopathic segment of the population who want control over everything and everyone. They want bigger government, more laws, more regulations, more restrictions, more taxes and more control over your life.” - Jim Quinn

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” - Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

“The absurdity of the bureaucratic state today is matched only by the expense.” - Gary North

“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.” - Robert E. Lee

“Government has grown far too big, promised far too much and delivered far too little for far too long.” - David Walker

“I don’t think you lose anything by hallucinating. It’s cheaper than airfare, the destinations more interesting, and I’d rather have a mutant squid on my window than the State Department trying to do foreign affairs.” - Fred Reed

“I never refer to any government official, politician or henchman (police) with any respectful terms such as sir or Mister. It is one of my pet peeves that many people when talking with police call them "sir." They should never be treated with much respect. At most they should be treated as small-time criminals or bottom-feeders and dismissed, but never treated with respect – at least until they do something which shows they deserve some respect.” - Jeff Berwick

“Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.” — The Talmud

“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.” - Pope John Paul II

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Mohandas Gandhi

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” - Voltaire

“The list of ways in which the IRS breaks the law would take volumes to describe. They're scary, and I don't know how to make them not scary. It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” - Larken Rose

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” - George Carlin

“And if you want an example of “overcoming age-old impulses of rivalry and distrust” then I can confidently point that there has NEVER been an example of anyone overcoming “age-old impulses of rivalry and distrust”. The Jews are still angry about the Egyptian pharaohs, the Christians are still grumpy with Pontius Pilate and the Jews, the Arabs are still testy about the Crusades, witches are still grumpy about being burned at the stake, blacks in this country are still whining about slavery before 1865, The Mogambo is still angry about the Supreme Court letting FDR declare war on the American Constitution, and the Palestinians are still grumpy about Israel being founded in 1947, all of which proves that nobody ever forgets age-old grudges.” - the Mogambo Guru

“Those who can't find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it, too.” - Lew Welch

“Security is an illusion created by people who have an over-valued sense of their own self-worth” - D.H.Tabor

“The people who can change things in a society are not tax-dodging multi-millionaires who have nothing to prove. And giving them silly titles won't help either.” - Drayton Bird

“People in democracies have the freedom of molten plastic being poured into a mold, but they probably think less than plastic does.” - Fred Reed

“Educators have been unable to get our youngsters to read, write, and compute on a level comparable with other developed nations... they are too busy proselytizing students. We've become a nation of thieves, accustomed to living at the expense of one another and to accommodate that we're obliged to support tyrannical and overreaching government. Adolf Hitler had it right when he said, 'How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think'.” - Walter E. Williams

“In April 1999, Defense News reported that Clinton had used up five year's production of Tomahawk cruise missiles in just three months. He bombed Serbs, Somalis, Albanians, Afghans, Iraqis and Sudanese. I think it was naïve, in the extreme, to think that the U.S. government could go around killing people and no one would get revenge.” - Richard Maybury

“I don’t know if any of those politicians have read Dante’s Inferno. They should because they all seem to profess a belief in an afterlife and a final judgment by God that could, in theory, land them in Hell. The part of Hell just underneath Satan’s left testicle, surrounded by an icy wasteland, was reserved for the people who betrayed their countries and their people. Many, if not all, politicians are doing that every minute of every single day. With luck, there will be an Inferno waiting for them and their eternities will be spent in frozen bondage staring up at a hairy shriveled evil testicle.” - Scott Christensen

“When you shoot a compound you are learning to use a weapon system. When you learn to shoot traditional you are becoming a weapon system.” - Grant Macdonald

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” — The Dalai Lama

“When you disarm your subjects, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.” - Mohandas Gandhi

“Moreover, legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State”. Unfortunately it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose action brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason.” -Pope John Paul 2

“When someone puts a knife to your throat or points a gun towards your family there are only two choices: You can die, or you can kill the bastard. We teach people who want to learn the second option.” - Chris Pizzo

“The idea that material objects have the capacity to direct and control our behavior is so childish that you can see how nicely it fits into the state’s interests in keeping us as obedient children.” - Butler Shaffer

“If violent crime is to be curbed it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore, what he must be taught to fear is the victim.” -- Jeff Cooper

“The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90mph, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution is to lower the speed limit to 20.” — Sam Cohen

“Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.” - unknown and thanked.

“Rifles, muskets, long bows and hand grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon, so long as there is no answer to it, gives claws to the weak.” - George Orwell

“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” — George Orwell

“Corrupt politicians inspire assassins. Of course they don't want people to have guns. Politicians never trust the people to whom they give reason to lock and load.” — Angel Shamaya

“You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” - Al Capone

“A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. One man with a gun can control 100 without one.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?” - Joseph Stalin

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their fall by doing so.” - Adolf Hitler

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” - Mao Tse-tung

“Mass murderers apparently can’t read, since they are constantly shooting up ‘gun-free zones.’” - Ann Coulter

“They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?” - Paul Harvey

“How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual: as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.” — Suzanna Gratia Hupp

“Young people owe it to themselves to understand how easily machine guns and tanks can control crowds. There is a basic rule about tanks, and you should know it: The only man who ever beat a tank was John Wayne, and he was in another tank. Now then--about machine guns: They work sort of like a garden hose, except they spray death. They should be approached with caution.” - Kurt Vonnegut

“When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.” - Tim Freeman

"To establish, as New York has, a gun control regime that guarantees to every criminal the near certainty that the plump-looking target walking down the street will be without a gun has always struck us, as it did the Founders of America, as folly.” - New York Sun editorial

“Of course, all of these frivolous lawsuits will ultimately be lost, because lethal food doesn't kill people any more than guns do. Sorry, gun-control advocates, but the reality is that it's people who kill people (and sometimes themselves). And they don't just do it with guns. They also use ropes, knives, lead pipes, and even their own hands. Which is why the whole notion of gun control is irrational, if not idiotic. And it's the same with food. Fast-food can't kill you unless you choose to

eat it.” - Robert Ringer

“People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid. Violence is not caused by inanimate objects. Criminals, by definition, do not obey laws, including gun-control laws. Therefore, the only accomplishment of gun-control laws is to assure the criminals that their victims will be unarmed.” - Charley Reese.

“You don't ban electric guitars just because someone may have a lapse in logic, goodwill, and decency, and spontaneously break out into country and Western music.” - Ted Nugent

“If more people had guns there'd be more world peace.” - Teresa Thompson

“Remember, guns don’t kill people, governments and the criminals they create do.” - William Buppert

“A pistol is like a tourniquet. You don't need one very often, but when you do need one you need it very badly, and very quickly.” - Arthur Jones

“He who goes unarmed in paradise had better be sure that is where he is.” - James Thurber

“Armed people get to do exactly what they want; everyone else has to shut up and take it.” - Tucker Carlson

“Most of the people who claim to be able to tell you about what's involved in real violence or street fights are like virgins trying to convince you they know everything there is to know about sex because they watch a lot of porn.” - Marc MacYoung

“I can imagine a world without war, a world without hate. I can also imagine us attacking such a world, because they'd never expect it.” - unknown and thanked

“Remember American Psycho? I can’t be totally sure but I bet there will never be a movie called British Psycho…or French Guatemalan Psycho… or The Psycho from the Maldives Archipelago. Why is that? Apparently, psychos are reserved for the good ol’ US of A. Americans are pretty fucked up, huh? And apparently we know that everyone knows it, and don’t really give a shit. Cool.” - Davis M Crenshaw

“The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.” - Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

“There are no answers, only choices.” - Stanislaw Lem

“There are no questions, only choices.” - don Xavier Vargas

“There are no solutions, only trade-offs.” – Thomas Sowell

“Labels are for jars not for people.” - Peter Merrick

“CAUTION! Do not add these grapes to five gallons of water and five pounds of sugar with yeast, or it will ferment into wine, which is ILLEGAL.” - 1920s grape juice label

“It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.” - Philip Caputo

“Nothing you have written here is worth the dirt on the pads of my handsomely appointed Maine Coon mix’s paws, and he trudges through some dangerous shit.” - unknown and thanked

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