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“It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.”
― Mark R. Levin, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

“And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?”
― Mark R. Levin, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“The Colorado secretary of state testified before Congress in 2011 that a check of voter registration rolls against state [Division of Motor Vehicles] records indicated that more than 11,000 Colorado registered voters may not be U.S. citizens—and more than 5,000 of them voted.”54”
― Mark R. Levin, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

“The bottom line is that the more consistently engaged a customer is with your posts on social media content - liking, commenting, sharing - the more likely they are to continue to do so in future.”
― Andrew Macarthy, 500 Social Media Marketing Tips Essential Advice Hints and Strategy

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“President Ronald Reagan cautioned that “[f]reedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”3”
― Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

“Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology.”
― Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

“Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated impartially before a just law.”
― Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

“Moreover, equality should not be confused with perfection, for man is also imperfect, making his application of equality, even in the most just society, imperfect.”
― Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

“Failure Is an Option. Failure to Learn From Failure Is Not an Option.”
― Essany, Michael, Steve Jobs: Ten Lessons in Leadership

“people prefer to do business with people they know, like, trust and respect.”
― Stefan Drew, Creating Business Growth: 21 Successful Marketers Reveal Their Top Business Marketing Secrets.

“Marketing should persuade people to view your products or services as highly desirable and point out compelling reasons to buy them.”
― Stefan Drew, Creating Business Growth: 21 Successful Marketers Reveal Their Top Business Marketing Secrets.

“1. What are the most frustrating problems your prospective customers struggle with that your product or service can solve? 2. What are the most important goals they struggle to reach that your product or service will help with?”
― Stefan Drew, Creating Business Growth: 21 Successful Marketers Reveal Their Top Business Marketing Secrets.

“What you personally think about your products, services, and marketing is almost irrelevant. All that matters is how your target customers perceive them.”
― Stefan Drew, Creating Business Growth: 21 Successful Marketers Reveal Their Top Business Marketing Secrets.

“Great companies did not simply employ best practices, they also focused on determining and abandoning detrimental practices.”
― Eighty Twenty Publishing, Summary of Good To Great by Jim Collins

“Avoid hiring on dubious qualifications. When in doubt, move on to the next candidate.”
― Eighty Twenty Publishing, Summary of Good To Great by Jim Collins

“Do not hesitate to make changes when hiring mistakes are found. Either reassign people to the right roles or drop them completely.”
― Eighty Twenty Publishing, Summary of Good To Great by Jim Collins

“Motivating employees to do better is a waste of time as the right people are capable of motivating themselves.”
― Eighty Twenty Publishing, Summary of Good To Great by Jim Collins

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Big government is a national security threat: it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you’ll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.”
― Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“The famous United Nations statistic from a 2002 report—more books are translated into Spanish in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in the last thousand—suggests at the very minimum an extraordinarily closed world.”
― Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“A dependence on immigration from very limited and particular sources is not a strength but a weakness.”
― Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“We’ve elevated the secondary impulses over the primary ones: national defense, self-reliance, family, and, most basic of all, reproductive activity. If you don’t “go forth and multiply” you can’t afford all those secondary-impulse programs, like lifelong welfare, whose costs are multiplying a lot faster than you are.”
― Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.”
― Nelson DeMille, Plum Island

“The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“The problem is that most schools don’t like great teachers. They’re organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
― Frank Zappa