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Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“The days are long enough for those who use them.”

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose works and ideas had a profound influence on the world. He was a renowned painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, musician, and engineer. more

“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”

Ifs Want Giving Should Trying Able Wanted Remember Term Chance Determine Satisfaction Missions Journalist Accomplished Personal Satisfaction Already Won

Author:Edward Snowden

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.”

Spirit Values Authority Breaths Library Sanctuary

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.”

Use Drug Tragedy Disaster Users Addict Alcoholics Prohibition Beverages Replay

Author:Milton Friedman

“Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.”

People Want Should States Enough Educate Private Life

Author:Gore Vidal

“I don’t drink anymore - just the same amount.”

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Author:Joe E. Lewis

“The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.”

World Eternity

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

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