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“And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
― Ronald Reagan

“It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Volume 2

“Never feeling guilt is not a state of ecstasy, as Las Vegas advertisements would have us believe, but is actually a sign of numbness unto death.”
― Kent Annan, Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World