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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

Love and friendship exclude each other. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#exclude #friendship #love #love and friendship #other

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#becomes #believe #care #come #curses

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#give #life #them #thing #things

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#hero #spencer #the-story-of-philosophy #equality

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#favor #i #i am #only #perhaps

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#consolation #different #different perspective #float #manage

When you love someone, you treat them well. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#someone #them #treat #well #you

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#decided #get #i #just #lazy