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Frederic Bastiat Quotes

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederic Bastiat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: french
Birth: June 30, 1801 - December 24, 1850

Topics

Live Great Government Fiction Else

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Freedom Artist Seems Liberation Ways

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Keep Main Thing Main Thing

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

Success Right Own Failing

One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

Dress Me Wish Boots Say Sketch

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Millie Bobby Brown

Life School My Life Play Done Never

I went from 250 to, like, 175 in three and a half, four months. And then I ended up graduating with honors. I went from a 2.4 to a 3.06 in a year. It's funny how those two are related. I don't want to say that if you lose weight, you'll get smarter, but... well, it worked for me.

Funny Me Year You Lose Three

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Life Purpose People Winners Definite

I just love playing good guys.

Love Good Playing Good Guys Just

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

Ride Joy Think You Human Something

Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.

Great People Listening Voice Doing

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Past Death Think Enemy Will Last

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Thomas Francis Meagher

People Weakness Deepest Legislation

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