Citizenship is obsolete. To optimize your lifetime earnings and become a Sovereign Individual you will need to become a customer of a government or protection service rather than a citizen. Instead of paying whatever tax burden is imposed upon you by grasping politicians, you will be better positioned to prosper in the Information Age by freeing yourself to negotiate a private tax treaty that obliges you to pay no more for services of government than they are actually worth to you.
– from The Sovereign Individual book by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
You can cut someone out of …
You can cut someone out of your life, but that doesn’t mean they’ll cut you out of theirs.
– from Mad Honey book by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
That’s the power of education. It …
That’s the power of education. It expands one’s field of vision, and in so doing, it lifts entire families and communities. When you witness better, you often want better.
– from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
Days of prosperity make us forget …
Days of prosperity make us forget adversity. Good times seem out of reach during the bad ones. Both can seem like final destinations, the summation of our days. Then the cosmic joker plays with our ways, Yesterday’s condition no longer remains, All commas, no periods, all stops, no stays, the pleasure’s for rent and so is the pain.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Time is the great eraser, both …
Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
All you have to do is …
All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.
– from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness
Sin is a thing that writes …
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray book by Oscar Wilde
I do not adjust myself to …
I do not adjust myself to please the world. I am myself wherever I am, and I let the world adjust.
– from Untamed book by Glennon Doyle
You can lay your strategies as …
You can lay your strategies as carefully as you like, but women will undo them at a stroke.
– from Midnight’s Children book by Salman Rushdie
Gotta do what you can to …
Gotta do what you can to stay alive, son. Turn a liability into an advantage whenever you can. Remember that, if you live.
– from The Way of Kings book by Brandon Sanderson