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“The price tag you put on your head is what you're bought with”
“You are received the way you present yourself”
“I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do.”
“Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave”
“Reason is not always reasonable”
“Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions”
“We are not moved by reasons but by emotions”
“The worst threat to man is man himself”
“Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone”
“Excuses and complaints are signs of a dreamless life”
“Failure is the raw material from which success is made from”
“Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction”
“Politicians look for interests not people”
“Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics”
“A politician is a man in his natural state”
“Politics preys on people's naivety”
“The powerful are like a compressor, they will grind into paste everything on their way”
“A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill”
“A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.”
“Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything”
“Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics”
“Don't look at what has been achieved, look at what needs to be achieved”
“The road to your success is not a highway. You have to create it as you go”
“Design and produce yourself according to your dreams”
“The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview”
“It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed”
“You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with”
“No one lost anything by giving, a tree loses nothing by giving away its fruits.”
“Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield”
“Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage”
“A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence”
“Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts”
“Nothing annoys in this world as a nagging wife”
“Marriage is but a consolidation of resources”
“Before marriage, man seeks woman, in marriage woman seeks man”