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  • Oscar Wilde Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Peacocke Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry George Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Bhagat Singh Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bo Bennett Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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  • Bob Filner Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • William Shenstone Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Anita Roddick Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • John Donne Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bono Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Cam Newton Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Ellen Key Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Anna Freud Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Bob Harper CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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