"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
-George Will
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"I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom."
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"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
-George Will
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"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."
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"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
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"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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