A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
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We waste our lives working at jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need!
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We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place. Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
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All the things you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck. I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
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You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. You are not the car you drive. You are not how much money is in your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
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You have to be prepared for the possibility that God does not like you.
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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
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Self improvement is masterbation. Self destruction is the answer.
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This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time!
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Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.Tyler never knew his father.Maybe self-destruction was the answer.
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The things you own end up owning you.
It's only after you've lost everything that you are free to do anything.
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Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
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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.
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Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
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My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.
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When life gets you down, just remember these three words of wisdom. 'Bonk!', 'Zap!', and 'Yowsers!'
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal.
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One might expect that these animals would mimic human symptoms, not just the genetic mutations. In fact, that is usually the exception, not the rule.
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Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.
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I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
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While Homeopathy itself is a perfect science, its truth is only partially known. The truth itself relates to the Divine, the knowledge relates to man.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
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I look at Liv Tyler and think It's not fair, because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
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