#them

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ↗

— George Washington

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. ↗

— George Washington

#burdens #governments #history #laid #marvel

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ↗

— George Washington

#dislodge #easier #enemy #experience #got

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. ↗

— George Washington

#left #mankind #own #their #themselves

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#count #doing #pointless #something #spend

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. ↗

— Alan Watts

#act #being #beings #changing #delivered

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#bands #copying #got #i #kid

I put the words down and push them a bit. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#down #i #push #put #them

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #black community #community #constituency #democratic