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The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said:

“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

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A Million Crisp Dollars

 

I don’t care about all the people who didn’t vote for me.  They just envy my massive wealth.  And poor people?  They can curl up and die, and I won’t lose a wink of sleep.  I bet you a million crisp dollars from my vault in Geneva.

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Unborn gays OK

I support the rights of the unborn child until it's born and wants a gay marriage.

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Ron Paul's Golden Rule

My point is, if another country does to us what we do to others, we’re not going to like it very much. So I would say that maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in — in foreign policy. ... We endlessly bomb . . . these countries and then we wonder — wonder why they get upset with us? And — and yet it — it continues on and on.   This idea that we can’t debate foreign policy, then all we have to do is start another war? I mean, it’s — it’s warmongering. ... They’re building up for another war against Iran, and people can’t wait to get in another war. This country doesn’t need another war.

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Kill Them

Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear-cut idea about America's enemies: Kill them.

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Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-Founder)

My primary phone is the iPhone, I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

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Health, Money, Future, Present.

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said:

“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Voluntary contributions to the defecit

It restores my faith in human nature to think that there are people who have been around Washington all this time and are not yet so cynical as to think that [the deficit] can't be solved by voluntary contributions.

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Faster Horse

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

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Pretty Girls and Stoves

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

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Lifetime losses in stocks

Anyone who bought stocks in mid-1929 and held onto them saw most of his or her adult life pass by before getting back to even.

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