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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

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• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Strive
  • Ancestors

• I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Why
  • Growing
  • Question

• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peaceful
  • Bullets
  • Ballots

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Food
  • Generosity

• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Equal

• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

  

  Sade Adu
  • Live
  • Me
  • Thanks

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Golf

• Health care should be affordable for everyone.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Everyone

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Walk

• I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Running
  • Ideas
  • Company

• Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Government
  • Creativity

• As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider.

  

  Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • Design
  • Creativity
  • Accept

• The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

  

  Tacitus
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