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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of t

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. – Thomas Jefferson

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

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New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, its a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. – Andrew Cuomo

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You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. – Russell Chatham, Silent Seasons, 1978

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The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. – Jon Meacham

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. – H. L. Mencken

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In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. – Anne Sophie Swetchine

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Yoga is essentially a practice for your soul, working through the medium of your body. – Tara Fraser

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There are books from which one inhales an exquisite air. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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