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Tupac Shakur154
rapper and actor 1971–1996
Barack Obama1158
44th President of the United States of America 1961
William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616
George Orwell473
English author and journalist 1903–1950
Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Recommended quotes
Ludwig von Mises book Liberalism
Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Liberal Policy § 11 : The Limits of Governmental Activity http://mises.org/liberal/ch1sec11.asp <br class="br">Liberalism (1927) <br class="br">Context: A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.
“There is no royal road to geometry.”
Non est regia ad Geometriam via.
Euclid (-323–-285 BC) Greek mathematician, inventor of axiomatic geometry
μὴ εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπί γεωμετρίαν, Non est regia [inquit Euclides] ad Geometriam via <br class="br">Reply given when the ruler Ptolemy I Soter asked Euclid if there was a shorter road to learning geometry than through Euclid's Elements.The "Royal Road" was the road built across Anatolia and Persia by Darius I which allowed rapid communication and troop movement, but use of ἀτραπός (rather than ὁδός) conveys the connotation of "short cut". <br class="br">The Greek is from Proclus (412–485 AD) in Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, the Latin translation is by Francesco Barozzi, 1560) the English translation follows Glenn R. Morrow (1970), p. 57 http://books.google.com/books?id=JZEHj2fEmqAC&q=royal#v=snippet&q=royal&f=false. <br class="br">Attributed
Anne Carson (1950) Canadian poet
"God's Mother", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions (New York, NY), 1995.
“Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.”
Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938–2010) Russian diplomat
Obituary, The Economist, 6th November 2010 p. 107
Dril Twitter user
[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/235218148800991233] <br class="br">Tweets by year, 2012
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain”
Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States
Oprah Magazine (2004)
Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter
Also attributed to Johnny Depp.
“Don't feel bad when you meet disappointment, it prepares you for an extraordinary ending”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“Learn to pay yourself first, you'll never be broke”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“I speak my mind, because it hurts to bite my tongue”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“I'm married to my money because it never cheats on me”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“I dream big because I believe I am what I think I am”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“People see me and think I have lots of girlfriends, do I look like I have lots of girlfriends?”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“Always pray for wisdom above all other things, it's like magnate”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
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“I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint…”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
“Think highly of yourself, that's how you get to the top”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
