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Open Republic Institute - An independent non-government policy organisation promoting open economy and open society.
Edmund Burke Institute - Advancing the values and economic arrangements which sustain a free society.
Policy Institute at Trinity College Dublin - The mission of the institute is to advance new and innovative ideas in research and education in public policy, by promoting active debate and engagement between the academic and public policy communities in Ireland and by supporting the analysis and development of effective policy solutions.
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Policy Institutes History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Policy Institutes My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Policy Institutes Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Policy Institutes Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Policy Institutes "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Policy Institutes Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Policy Institutes The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Policy Institutes Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Policy Institutes Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Policy Institutes Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Policy Institutes University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Policy Institutes If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Policy Institutes One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Policy Institutes Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Policy Institutes I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Policy Institutes Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Policy Institutes Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Policy Institutes The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Policy Institutes If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Policy Institutes It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Policy Institutes It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Policy Institutes
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