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[Quote No.57330] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics and morality:] When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings." - Sogyal Rinpoche
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[Quote No.57343] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics and morality, reciprocity, empathy and the 'golden rule' of treating others as you and they would like to be treated:] A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein
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[Quote No.57369] Need Area: Friends > General
"All men [and women, especially politicians and bureaucrats,] having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." - James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Source: speech at the Constitutional Convention, July 11, 1787.
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[Quote No.57426] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Be wary of war and crisis because these become the sought-after reasons and excuses politicians and other power-hungry individuals and groups use to justify and implement - even supposedly only temporarily - what would never otherwise be accepted even for a moment:] The war [WWII] made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times." - Joseph Paul Goebbels
(1897-1945) Nazi Germany Propaganda Minister. Source: 'The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943'.
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[Quote No.57455] Need Area: Friends > General
"[What is envy and jealousy? What is fame?] What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins [who, rather than wanting to be equal by having a balloon too, want to be equal by making you not have a balloon either]." - Gene Fowler
(1890 - 1960)
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[Quote No.57458] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Be wary of politicians and governments that use a 'crisis' to justify even a supposedly temporary measure that infringes upon ethical and constitutional birth-rights:] The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security 'necessities' to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy scepticism." - Justice William J. Brennan
(1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Brown v. Glines, 444 US 348 (1980).
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[Quote No.57465] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, reciprocity and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you and they would like to be treated in the same situation:] One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others." - Simone de Beauvoir
(1908 - 1986), Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.
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[Quote No.57470] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, reciprocity and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you would like to be treated in the same situation:] Helping someone else is the best way to ensure your own survival. It takes you out of yourself. It helps you to rise above your fears. Now you're a rescuer, not a victim. And seeing how your leadership and skill buoy others up gives you more focus and energy to persevere. The cycle reinforces itself: You buoy them up, and their response buoys you up. Many people who survive alone report that they were doing it for someone else (a wife, boyfriend, mother, son) back home." - Laurence Gonzales
'Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why'
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[Quote No.57478] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others." - Alexander Hamilton
(1757 - 1804)
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[Quote No.57479] Need Area: Friends > General
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
(1907-1972), rabbi and professor.
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[Quote No.57490] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Political history/propaganda is a matter of belief and perspective. For example, the saying 'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter' and...] All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished." - Amelia Barr
(1831 - 1919)
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[Quote No.57491] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, reciprocity - treating others as you've been treated and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you and they would equally like to be treated:] When you are kind to someone, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else [follow the example] and it will become like wildfire." - Whoopi Goldberg
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[Quote No.57494] Need Area: Friends > General
"A man does not have to be an angel [perfect in every way] in order to be a saint [showing empathy-inspired kindness and caring for others, usually involving personal sacrifice]." - Albert Schweitzer
(1875-1965), philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate.
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[Quote No.57497] Need Area: Friends > General
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929 - 1968)
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[Quote No.57499] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politics and economic management:] Does the [US] stock market affect or predict the [US] election outcome?
The old saying that 'people vote their pocketbooks' is more accurate than the average [US] political analyst thinks. While Wall Street typically worries about how politics might affect the market, perhaps [US] Presidential candidates should worry about how the [US] stock market might affect their political outcomes.
Historically, the [US] market performance in the three months leading up to a [US] Presidential Election has displayed an uncanny ability to forecast who will win the White House... the incumbent party or the challenger. Since 1928, there have been 22 Presidential Elections. In 14 of them, the S&P 500 climbed during the three months preceding election day. The incumbent President or party won in 12 of those 14 instances. However, in 7 of the 8 elections where the S&P 500 fell over that three month period, the incumbent party lost.
There are only three exceptions to this correlation: 1956, 1968, and 1980. Statistically, the market has an 86.4% success rate in forecasting the election!
This relationship occurs because the stock market reflects the economic outlook in the weeks leading up to the election. A rising stock market indicates an improving economy, which means rising confidence and increases the chances of the incumbent party's re-election. Therefore, your time might be better spent from August through October watching the [US] stock market rather than the debates if you want to know who will be [US] President for the next four years." - James Stack
He writes the InvesTech Research newsletter.
[http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/why-donald-trump-praying-market-crash ]
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[Quote No.57502] Need Area: Friends > General
"Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work [because it is at odds with our human nature for individual freedom and happiness, and it has therefore been subverted by many wherever it has been tried]." - Will Rogers
(1879 - 1935), American comedian. Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. It came into effect as the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
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[Quote No.57511] Need Area: Friends > General
"Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because it is necessary for his own." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.57544] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individual freedom and personal responsibilty, morality and ethics:] Man must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right." - Josiah C. Wedgwood
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[Quote No.57551] Need Area: Friends > General
"[While their is value in doubt and skepticism, it can be taken so far as to become unhelpful and maladaptive. For example, in general, for your happiness as well as others, give people the benefit of the doubt, as the law says, ‘innocent until proven guilty’. Be rationally optimistic and progressively more trusting with each person, until experience proves them untrustworthy:] To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable of enjoying the good things." - Isaac Asimov
American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. Quoted in the book, ‘Isaac Asimov: It’s Been a Good Life’, published 2002 and edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov, p. 159.
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[Quote No.57555] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Human rights:] No one has a right [by being born - a birth right/human right] to food, water, shelter, money, or love if he must obtain it at the [fraudulent or forced, involuntary] expense of the owner. Medical care is no more a right than these. Man rightfully obtains goods and services by producing them from nature or by voluntary exchange with others. Man may exchange goods, services, and emotional values, but he must [freely, voluntarily] trade to obtain them. Otherwise he is a thief acting against human existence." - Charles W. Johnson
Quote from the magazine, 'The Freeman', April 1969.
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[Quote No.57592] Need Area: Friends > General
"[When you are becoming envious and jealous of another person remember...] We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement." - Tami Hoag
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[Quote No.57594] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities [legally determined as unconstitutional]; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights." - Thomas Jefferson
Notes on Virginia, 1782.
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[Quote No.57598] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians and governments are always trying to control what citizens know, think and freely choose - including the use of disinformation and propaganda, especially during times of conflict or war to ensure the populace's 'heart and minds' support - because ultimately ideas are more powerful than force. Remember...] Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." - Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769 - 1821)
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[Quote No.57632] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians and governments should remember...] Laws do not persuade just because they threaten." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist. As quoted in A.D. 65.
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[Quote No.57641] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics and kindness:] How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), British poet, playwright and actor.
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[Quote No.57659] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." - Robert Houghwout Jackson
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[Quote No.57660] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting any thing by it; nay, absolute monarch will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for purposes and objects merely personal, such as a thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctioned by justice or the voice and interests of his people." - John Jay
Federalist No. 4, November 7, 1787.
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[Quote No.57673] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not the race [genetics, etc] that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type [which even then is differentiated all the way down to each individual]." - Will Durant
'The Lessons of History'
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[Quote No.57675] Need Area: Friends > General
"The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality." - Will Durant
'The Lessons of History'
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[Quote No.57676] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 [almost 8%] have seen no war." - Will Durant
'The Lessons of History'
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[Quote No.57677] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Unfortunately politicians and governments, whether in democracies or not, have realised the importance of 'spin' - managing information and propaganda - because while] ...'you can't fool all the people all the time,' ...you can fool enough of them to rule a large country." - Will Durant
'The Lessons of History'
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[Quote No.57680] Need Area: Friends > General
"In progressive societies the concentration [of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution [conflict, war, etc] distributing poverty!" - Will Durant
'The Lessons of History'
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[Quote No.57748] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom and individualism:] We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom [from force or fraud] for the [peaceful, honest] minority, let alone for the [peaceful, honest] individual, to face that majority down." - William F. Buckley, Jr.
(1925-2008) American author and journalist, who founded 'National Review'. Source: 'The Jeweler's Eye', 1968.
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[Quote No.57750] Need Area: Friends > General
"It must be obvious that liberty [so long as there is no fraud or force to others] necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil [to yourself] as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment." - Ben Moreell
'Survival of the Species'
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[Quote No.57755] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man, and also a nation." - Adlai Stevenson
(1900 - 1965)
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[Quote No.57758] Need Area: Friends > General
"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." - Adlai Stevenson
(1900-1965), governor, US ambassador.
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[Quote No.57759] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government spending on business only aggravates the problem. Too many business have successfully lobbied for special favors and treatment by seeking mandates for their products, subsidies (in the form of cash payments from the government), and regulations and tariffs to keep more efficient competitors at bay. Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want." - Charles Koch
(1935- ), American businessman and philanthropist. Source: Koch, Charles (March 1, 2011). 'Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out'. The Wall Street Journal.
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[Quote No.57760] Need Area: Friends > General
"The strength of the [US] Constitution [and its defence of natural rights] lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." - Albert Einstein
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[Quote No.57765] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." - Abraham Lincoln
16th U. S. President
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[Quote No.57768] Need Area: Friends > General
"To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom." - Rosa Parks
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[Quote No.57772] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, reciprocity and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you and they would want to be treated:] The question 'Why [are we alive?]' in the human sphere is easy to answer: to create satisfaction [meet our needs and desires] for ourselves and for other people." - Albert Einstein
[Refer https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/11/27/einstein-on-why-we-are-alive/ ]
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[Quote No.57781] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
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[Quote No.57788] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Equal individual freedom from fraud and force:] Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny." - Barry Goldwater
(1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona). Source: Senator Goldwater's Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention, 1964.
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[Quote No.57797] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality, ethics, etc:] No good act can produce an evil result. Evil means, even for a good end, produce evil results." - Mohandas Gandhi
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[Quote No.57804] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Limited, small government:] The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves - in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere." - Abraham Lincoln
16th US President
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[Quote No.57807] Need Area: Friends > General
"In a free [from fraud or force] society, you decide. In an authoritarian society, the government decides. Libertarians believe in a free [from fraud or force] society. Statists believe in a society heavily controlled by legislation, laws, regulations, judges, bureaucrats, ordinances, prisons, violence, force, aggression, coercion, badges, and guns." - Laurence M. Vance
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[Quote No.57840] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The equal unalienable right to individual informed choice which means freedom from fraud and force:] The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." - John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist.
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[Quote No.57861] Need Area: Friends > General
"Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
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[Quote No.57882] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical [legal] safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice [through the exercise of government power over persuasion and individual choice]." - Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
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[Quote No.57886] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Politicians are not necessarily experts in anything as their party usually has many policy advisors and they also can rely on their staff of experienced, permanent public servants:] It's hard to imagine a job that requires less education than that of government minister. It's also hard to imagine a job where the occupant is less likely to seek help than that of government minister.
" - John David Hill
(1949 - ), Australian politician, represented the electoral district of Kaurna in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party from 1997 to 2014.
Born in Sydney, Hill attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He moved to South Australia in 1974 and became a teacher. He also studied at the University of Adelaide and received his law degree.
Following a brief stint as a ministerial adviser during the Bannon Government, Hill became a party official, becoming State Secretary in 1994. He was elected to Parliament as member for Kaurna at the 1997 state election.
After Labor won the 2002 election, Hill became a minister in the Rann Government. Initially given the portfolios of Minister for Environment and Conservation, Minister for the River Murray, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts and Minister for Gambling. He was also the Minister for Health for seven years.
Hill did not re-contest his seat at the 2014 election.
Quote from his book, 'On Being a Minister - Behind The Mask'.
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