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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak… — Bertolt Brecht
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… — Henry David Thoreau
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we… — Thomas Jefferson
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it… — Thomas Sowell
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress… — Learned Hand
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it… — Frank Chodorov
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can… — Milton Friedman
Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win — Erin Brockovich
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your… — Jane Goodall
There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and… — Robert M. Hensel
As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the… — Billy Corgan
‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that… — Susan L. Taylor
I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of… — Audre Lorde
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead… — Warren W. Wiersbe
You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take. — Byron Katie
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the… — Ernst Haeckel
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance… — Ambrose Bierce
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a… — Bill Gates
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. — Adam Sedgwick
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect… — Galileo Galilei

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