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The case for open markets, free trade, private investment and technology has never been stronger in development. Over the decades, this combination has driven down poverty, helped to tackle disease, and created jobs across the globe.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Our failures are way less likely than our successes to be ignored by our enemies.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

It's an erase all your playlists kinda day

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.

The limits are set by the referees. Those are the ones who are in charge of making sure this is football and not American football.

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.

I mix mayonnaise, ketchup and brandy and a little bit of mustard. This is a heck of a good sauce for seafood.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.