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[Quote No.39360] Need Area: Friends > General
"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place." - Margaret Mead
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[Quote No.39363] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is." - Hermann Hesse
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[Quote No.39396] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear." - Thomas W. Higginson
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[Quote No.39582] Need Area: Friends > General
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." - Maya Angelou
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[Quote No.39627] Need Area: Friends > General
"As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter." - unknown
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[Quote No.39638] Need Area: Friends > General
"One good hearty laugh together could be the greatest insurance of lasting peace that men of all nations could contrive." - unknown
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[Quote No.39659] Need Area: Friends > General
"Humor is an antidote to isolation." - Elizabeth Janeway
From 'Improper Behavior'.
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[Quote No.39666] Need Area: Friends > General
"The true end of a war is the rebirth of life; the right to die peacefully in your own bed. The true end of war is the end of fear; the true end of war is the return of laughter." - Alfredo Molano
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[Quote No.39715] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood." - Norman Cousins
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[Quote No.39881] Need Area: Friends > General
"The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture." - Ken Langone
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[Quote No.39903] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama
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[Quote No.39905] Need Area: Friends > General
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind!" - Pearl S. Buck
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[Quote No.39906] Need Area: Friends > General
"I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.39907] Need Area: Friends > General
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority." - Will Durant
Respected historian
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[Quote No.39914] Need Area: Friends > General
"The greatest threat to the future of our nation - to our freedom - is not foreign military aggression ... but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility." - Charles B. Shuman
(1907 -1999), President of the Illinois Agricultural Association (1945-55) and the American Farm Bureau Federation (1954-71).
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[Quote No.39915] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Each political party's economic credentials and policies should be examined by voters very carefully. And not just for what is in them for their personal benefit. Otherwise the personal freedom and rights that democracy offers can be lost as explained in this quote:] A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tytler
Quote from 1797.
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[Quote No.39916] Need Area: Friends > General
"Even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. [The solemn responsibility of each voter, along with all people who believe in individual rights, is to not let that usurping of power happen, for the good of themselves, their children and their society.]" - Thomas Jefferson
US President and author of the Declaration of Independence.
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[Quote No.39919] Need Area: Friends > General
"Equal laws protecting equal rights are the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country." - James Madison
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[Quote No.39924] Need Area: Friends > General
"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections." - Meg Greenfield
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[Quote No.39926] Need Area: Friends > General
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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[Quote No.39938] Need Area: Friends > General
"A state of war...serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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[Quote No.39959] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Dependence is not happiness.] Independence is happiness. " - Susan B. Anthony
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[Quote No.40080] Need Area: Friends > General
"Only the gentle are ever really strong." - James Dean
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[Quote No.40084] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is a delicate balance of putting yourself last and not being a doormat and thinking of yourself first and not coming off as selfish, arrogant, or bossy. We spend the majority of our lives attempting to perfect this balance. When we are successful, we have many close, healthy relationships. When we are unsuccessful, we suffer the natural consequences of damaged and sometimes broken relationships." - Cindy L. Teachey
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[Quote No.40093] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master [as history has shown so often. Therefore it, and its politicians and bureaucrats, must be carefully watched and the power and influence strictly constrained, lest they be used against the people rather than for their best interests - for example by strictly enforcing the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution, but above all by the energetic vigilance of a fully informed and concerned citizenry.]" - George Washington
US President
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[Quote No.40107] Need Area: Friends > General
"Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others." - William J. H. Boetcker
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[Quote No.40132] Need Area: Friends > General
"The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable!" - Confucius
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[Quote No.40150] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every collectivist [fascist, socialist, communist or other statist, big government] revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' [and 'the current crisis'] became the justification of the subsequent steps [many times normally illegal steps, that made their governments bigger and more powerful and their citizens less free]. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. [All lovers of personal freedom must be aware that this is a tried and proven tactic that statist politicians, bureaucrats, crony capitalists and warmongers have and will forever use to usurp power and trammel individual human rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and personal property, and the rule of law, while enriching and empowering themselves. They should also never believe the usual claims that removing these extraordinary powers will be a simple matter as by then the beneficiaries and vested interests will fight tooth and nail to keep what they have become used to. Any emergency powers and steps should therefore always be seen in this cautionary light and have, at the very least, built in 'sunset clauses' that remove the extraordinary powers and steps on a certain date or set in motion an immediate general election and the dissolution of the existing government, to reset the democratic legitimacy and mandate to govern.]" - Herbert Hoover
(1874-1964), 31st US President
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[Quote No.40188] Need Area: Friends > General
"The course of history shows that as a government grows,
liberty decreases." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.40189] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.
One is by the sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams
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[Quote No.40190] Need Area: Friends > General
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
US Supreme Court Judge. Source: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States,
277 US 479 (1928)
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[Quote No.40195] Need Area: Friends > General
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them." - Baruch (or Benedictus de) Spinoza
(1632 – 1677), a Dutch Jewish philosopher.
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[Quote No.40197] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. [meritocracy]" - Robert Frost
US poet
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[Quote No.40199] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the first place, when there is a [government] policy of intentional aggression [and eventual war], inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought [to justify the action already desired. This allows the government to appear in the right and keep the hearts and minds of the citizenry supporting its actions]." - Elihu Root
(1845 - 1937)
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[Quote No.40201] Need Area: Friends > General
"Humanity [and each indivdual] is just a work in progress." - Tennessee Williams
(1911 - 1983)
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[Quote No.40202] Need Area: Friends > General
"Anyone [especially the media] who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. [Therefore for freedom and democracy to work the press must provide true information.]" - Voltaire
1767
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[Quote No.40204] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are [unconstitutional] unauthoritative, void, and of no force." - Thomas Jefferson
Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
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[Quote No.40206] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain." - John Henry Newman
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[Quote No.40224] Need Area: Friends > General
"...the proper role for government is to provide national defence, a court system for civil disputes, a criminal justice system for acts of force and fraud, and little else. In other words, the state as referee rather than an active participant in our society." - Ron Paul
Doctor and US Republican Congressman for Texas. Quote from 'Political Power and the Rule of Law', 5 February 2007. [http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1106&Itemid=69 ]
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[Quote No.40227] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Incumbent politicians that wish to be re-elected are well aware that coming up to an election they need to make the economy better or at the least the economic statistics appear better. This is why most economic policy throughout their term is constructed to make its most positive effects just before and during the expected election date. Share investors know this as the presidential election cycle effect.] Classical Economic Voting Theory has received considerable empirical support. [It states that voters hold the incumbent political party and politicians responsible for recent economic performance. Therefore:] Voters reward the incumbent for good times, punish it for bad." - Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau
Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Department of Political Science,
University of Iowa;
Richard Nadeau, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal.
Quote from their paper 'ECONOMIC VOTING THEORY: TESTING NEW DIMENSIONS' presented at the Department of Political Science Conference, Ohio State University, on 'The 2008 US Presidential Election', held in Columbus, October 1-4,
2009. [http://polisci.osu.edu/conferences/2008election/papers/lewis-beck.pdf ]
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[Quote No.40230] Need Area: Friends > General
"All warfare is based on deception. [It involves deception against the opponents AND against your own citizens. The latter is considered 'necessary' by the political powers that be because without the support of the citizenry, their 'hearts and minds' as it is euphemistically called, no war can be initiated or maintained. In peacetime all society is based on two fundamental principle found over time to be critical for happiness and success - facts and freedom. But wartime reverses these principles, so that fraud and force become the norm, both against the opponent and against the citizenry. Because of this, as well as the enormous loss of life, property, wealth, health and happiness, war is the most evil wholesale activity that any political group can engage in. No one should make light of the extreme damage war creates for all involved and the discussion about whether the means (fraud and force) justifies the end (fact and freedom) should always be in the forefront of all concerned lest what is trying to be protected or achieved (fact and freedom) is lost or made even less.]" - Sun Tzu
Martial strategist. Quote from his very famous book, 'The Art of War'.
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[Quote No.40231] Need Area: Friends > General
"In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity." - Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister during World War II.
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[Quote No.40232] Need Area: Friends > General
"It [a movement, initially] does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds." - Samuel Adams
(1722 – 1803), an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the 'Founding Fathers' of the United States of America.
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[Quote No.40233] Need Area: Friends > General
"History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." - Ronald Reagan
US President
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[Quote No.40234] Need Area: Friends > General
"[In war great sacrifices are made. These should never be taken for granted or forgotten. The following ode has become common in services to remember the people who made the ultimate sacrifice for the good of those that survived. It is addressed to all casualties of war, regardless of state. It is not meant to glorify war.]
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them." - Laurence Binyon
This quatrain is called the 'Ode of Remembrance'. It is the fourth stanza from Laurence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen', which was first published in 'The Times' in September 1914. The line 'Lest we forget' is often added to the end of the ode. It is repeated in response by those listening, especially in Australia. In the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada the final line of the ode, 'We will remember them', is repeated in response.
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[Quote No.40247] Need Area: Friends > General
"...politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service." - Calvin Coolidge
US President
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[Quote No.40248] Need Area: Friends > General
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 – 1826, American Founding Father who was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
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[Quote No.40249] Need Area: Friends > General
"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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[Quote No.40250] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you stand straight [in your character], do not fear a crooked shadow [in your reputation]." - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.40251] Need Area: Friends > General
"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended." - Old Folk Saying
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