“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
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“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
― Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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