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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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