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"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."​
MARGARET THATCHER​
 
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”​
G. MICHAEL HOPF​
 

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.​

~Dolly Parton
 
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."​
CHARLES KETTERING​
 
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."​
C.S. LEWIS​
This one feels incomplete to me without this part:

"It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
 
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”​
FRANK HERBERT​
 
Oh, was something misspelled? I didn't notice. But what else could hippocratic mean (with or without a spelling mistake)?

(Yes, I do actually know. But where did Hippocrates get his name, huh? Huh?!)
 
Do IT people have to take the hippocratic oath?
"It's infected! If this was a human being, I would shoot it in the face!"

-Roy from IT Crowd, talking about Jen's virus-ridden computer
I miss that show.

"Did you try to turn off and on again?"
 
"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."​
THEODORE BIKEL​
 
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