Bill Bonner Quotes
A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.
Quotes to Explore
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
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To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?
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Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
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My wish is peace for Israel and for Israel's neighbors.
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Roxy was just going too safe, and at the time I was also a bit pissed off at the business—not with playing, but with the people in it.
