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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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The Jews have been hardened against Christ, against decency for thousands of years... They're gonna have to be annihilated, Eugene.
Speaking to Eugene Torre, Radio Interview, May 24 1999 [13] -
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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...in our society... this has now become a propagandist system in which emphasis is put on the future... the ideology against which the young people of the 1950's and 1960's rebelled. Future preference: plan; study hard; save.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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