Our necessities are few but our wants are endless...
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- Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
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Anon... - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires,
is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ... - I place economy among the first and most important virtues,
and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared... - Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants,
and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising... - The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
Socrates (470?-399 B.C... - Peace" is when nobody's shooting.
A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants... - Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of our best
people.
George... - Few of us ever test our powers of deduction,
except when filling out an income tax form... - Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the
bulk of our people.
Walt...
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- Boxing is the only sport in the world where two men get paid for doing
something to each other that if they did otherwise,
they would get arrested for doing, particularly if... - Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put
competition above everything else,
and if it were to clarify the rules of competition... - Always read over the letters you write, or some
damn fool is going to think they have found a kindred spirit.
Confucius... - Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja
Animator... - What REALLY killed Sid Vicious and Nancy
Spungen...
