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Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. - I

Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it. – Italian Proverb

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Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich. – P. J. ORourke

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Welfare

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place — service — social service — the ants creed, the bees creed. – John Galsworthy

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Welfare

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it undermines the work ethic, but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives. – Charles Alan Murray

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Welfare

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. – Auberon Herbert

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Welfare

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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. – Henry David Thoreau

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Keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out. – Walter Kotschnig, c.1940

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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they dont have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me. – Hedy Lamarr

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When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking
Some green leaf to rest upon;
What would not I give to wander
Where my old companions dwell?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! – John Milton

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