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When the government attempts to regulate everything, all is lost. -- Thibaudeau
When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.
-- Good's Rule for Dealing with Bureaucracie...
When the government talks about "raising capital" it means printing it.
That's not very creative, but it's what we're going to do. -- Peter F. Drucke...
When the gray-hooded Even, Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed, Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phoebus' wain.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 188...
When the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the rustling leaves With minute drops from off the eaves.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 128...
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap. ii...
When the idealisms of life are stripped away, all that is left is the cold fact that life sucks.
When the iron is hot, strike. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. iii
When the issue is simple, and everyone understands it, debate is interminable. -- Robert Knowle
When the last reader reads no more. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Last Reade

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