Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.