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“Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.”

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”

“When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.”

“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”

“Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.”

“And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.”

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"“a large army for the purpose of keeping people in subjection… No adequate idea can be conveyed of the sufferings of the people. The cudgel and the whip compel them to incessant labour… their revolt o…"

— François Bernier

Medicine1620–1688

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"This is a crisis that was caused by people, white with blue eyes. And before the crisis they looked as if they knew everything about economics."

— Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Politics1945

#Human Nature

"It’s only the extremists who divide people into good Muslims and bad Muslims, by forcing their warped doctrine onto fellow Muslims and telling them that it is the only way to believe."

— David Cameron

Politics1933–2012

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"ugenic doctrine did not originate with the Nazis. It began with polite, urbane, well-educated, sophisticated people who saw "social hygiene" via, among other methods, euthanasia, as representing progr…"

— Robert P. George

Philosophy1955

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