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“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
Walt Disney
“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.”
Ray Bradbury
“The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.”
Will Rogers
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“It takes two to tango”
American Proverb
“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”
George Santayana
“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”
W. C. Fields
“Where there is no difficulty there is no praise”
Samuel Johnson
“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum”
Sir Walter Scott
