Mark Skousen Quotes
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
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My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'
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In more than thirty years of conducting workshops, no one has ever said to me, 'Warren, I want a divorce – my partner understands me.'
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I would rather talk to the mirror than to the press. There is a part of me that remains within me and the rest goes out to the public.
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While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
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The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who calls attention to his style, is like the farmer who devotes his energies to polishing farm implements and never uses them.
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She glimpsed the pink flowers of a magnolia protesting against the black-and-white half-timbered facade of a mock-Tudor side street.
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No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
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Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.
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If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.
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True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
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The government endangers us with our own money.
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I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.
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Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.
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In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
