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  • Winston Churchill Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Walter Bagehot Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Leon Trotsky Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Henry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Mark Twain Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Hoff Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Aristophanes Under every stone lurks a politician.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Bill Flores Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Edmund Burke Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Carl Sandburg Under the summer roses
    When the flagrant crimson
    Lurks in the dusk
    Of the wild red leaves,
    Love, with little hands,
    Comes and touches you
    With a thousand memories,
    And asks you
    Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
    Under the Harvest Moon (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Sir William Osler Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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