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[Quote No.45808] Need Area: Friends > General
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared." - J.K. Rowling
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[Quote No.45815] Need Area: Friends > General
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's minds, imagine themselves into other people's places.
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know." - J.K. Rowling
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[Quote No.45821] Need Area: Friends > General
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism." - Dorothy Thompson
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[Quote No.45844] Need Area: Friends > General
"In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of [individualism] local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another [empathy], across our inevitable differences, as living souls." - Wendell Berry
'The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays' (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community).
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[Quote No.45850] Need Area: Friends > General
"I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding." - Jean Webster
'Daddy-Long-Legs'
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[Quote No.45873] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sympathy is the child of imagination." - Clarence Darrow
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[Quote No.45874] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination." - Ilyas Kassam
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[Quote No.45877] Need Area: Friends > General
"The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination." - Enoch Powell
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[Quote No.45900] Need Area: Friends > General
"What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed." - R.M. Engelhardt
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[Quote No.45910] Need Area: Friends > General
"Difficulties will occur in everyone's life. We are typically much more aware of our own difficulties than those of others. This can easily breed unwarranted envy. But knowing that everyone has challenges in life can make your own easier to cope with." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Quote from his book, 'Marriage', 1998, Chapter One, p.54.
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[Quote No.45953] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politeness has a bad name. We often assume it's about being 'fake' (which is meant to be bad) as opposed to 'really ourselves' (which is meant to be good). However, given what we're really like deep down, we should spare others too much exposure to our deeper selves. We need to learn manners, which aren't evil - they are the necessary internal rules of civilisation. Politeness is very linked to tolerance, the capacity to live alongside people whom one will never agree with, but at the same time, can't avoid." - Alain de Botton
From his book, 'Ten Virtues for the Modern Age'
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[Quote No.45961] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Big 'paternalistic' governments are very concerned with controlling the masses and for that reason they become deeply involved in managing the media and education for 'the public good' but also for bad as the following suggests:] Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique [spin and propaganda along with false information and the disparaging of skepticism, independent research and freedom of speech] has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen." - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
(1762-1814) German philosopher, psychologist, considered the father of German nationalism [which later was incorporated into National Socialism - Nazi - philosophy.]
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[Quote No.45963] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government propaganda is used to win the hearts and minds, blood and treasure, of its own citizens and confuse, demoralise and destroy those of its 'enemy':] The first casualty when war comes is Truth." - Hiram Johnson
U.S. Senator, 1917.
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[Quote No.45964] Need Area: Friends > General
"This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire." - Nicholas Kristof
Columnist for the New York Times. Source: New York Times, 12/9/2012.
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[Quote No.45965] Need Area: Friends > General
"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." - William Tecumseh Sherman
(1820-1891) General Commander of the United States Army
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[Quote No.45966] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
(121 AD -180 AD) Roman Emperor, 161-180 AD
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[Quote No.45972] Need Area: Friends > General
"The spirit of resistance to government [power] is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.45973] Need Area: Friends > General
"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired." - David Lloyd George
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[Quote No.45995] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." - Aldous Huxley
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[Quote No.46033] Need Area: Friends > General
"In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." - Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, mathematician and sociocultural critic.
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[Quote No.46050] Need Area: Friends > General
"[It is not wise to envy others. Just as there are always people worse off than you, there will always be people who are doing better. But no-one really knows if another's situation is better than their own or if it will stay better for long, as the following story illustrates:]
Legend has it that in 1923, a meeting of America's most powerful men took place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Attending the meeting were the following nine financiers and power brokers:
-the president of America’s largest steel company,
-the president of America’s largest utility company,
-the president of America’s largest gas company,
-the president of the New York Stock Exchange,
-the president of the Bank of International Settlements,
-the nation’s greatest wheat speculator,
-the nation’s greatest bear and speculator on Wall Street,
-the head of the world’s greatest monopoly,
-a member of President Harding’s cabinet.
It was said to have been both a celebration of their success as well as an opportunity to plan their future exploits and dominance. These were the captains of their respective industries and some of the most successful businessmen of the era.
But how did things turn out for these distinguished gentlemen? Within 25 years, all of these great men had met a horrific end to their careers or their lives:
-The president of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab, died a bankrupt man;
-the president of the largest utility company, Samuel Insull, died penniless;
-the president of the largest gas company, Howard Hobson, suffered a mental breakdown, ending up in an insane asylum;
-the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, had just been released from prison;
-the bank president, Leon Fraser, had taken his own life;
-the wheat speculator, Arthur Cutten, died penniless;
-the head of the world’s greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger the 'match king', also had taken his life; and
-the member of President Harding’s cabinet, Albert Fall, had just been given a pardon from prison so that he could die at home.
And as for -the Wall Street Bear, Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famous speculator in the stock and commodities markets, his end is perhaps the most tragic of all. A week after Thanksgiving in 1940, Jesse walked into the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York, had two drinks at the bar while scribbling something in his notebook, then proceeded to the cloak room where he sat on a stool and shot himself in the head. He was 62 and left behind $5 million, down from the $100 million fortune he had amassed just ten years earlier.
And the note he had scribbled?
'My dear Nina: Can’t help it. Things have been bad with me. I am tired of fighting. Can’t carry on any longer. This is the only way out. I am unworthy of your love. I am a failure. I am truly sorry, but this is the only way out for me. Love Laurie.'" - Joshua M Brown
[http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/02/23/nine-financiers-2/ ]
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[Quote No.46069] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government propaganda:] Television was our chief tool in selling our policy." - Richard Haass
(1951 - ) President of the Council on Foreign Relations since July of 2003, National Security Council Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs (1989-93)
U.S. National Security Council. Source: on the U.S. War with Iraq. New York Times, Nov. 5, 1991, p. B3.
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[Quote No.46070] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government propaganda:] The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - William Colby
(1920-1996) former Director of the CIA. Source: in Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See (2000), by Dave McGowan.
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[Quote No.46071] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government propaganda:] The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742-1799)
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[Quote No.46073] Need Area: Friends > General
"The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish." - Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author
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[Quote No.46074] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Socialism as a philosophy does not respect individual, inalienable, human rights:] The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual." - Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi [National Socialism] Dictator
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[Quote No.46075] Need Area: Friends > General
"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
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[Quote No.46079] Need Area: Friends > General
"By the democratic principles we espouse, government cannot have a right that citizens do not grant it. There are certain things that a person has no right to do. A person has no right to murder or rape another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to murder and rape. Similarly, no person has the right to forcibly take the property of one person in order to give it to another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to do the same thing. If I forcibly took property from one person, for any reason, most people would condemn it as theft, an immoral act. Theft or any other immoral act does not become moral because it is done by government acting on behalf of a consensus or majority vote just as murder or rape does not become a moral act simply because of a consensus or majority vote." - Walter E. Williams
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[Quote No.46085] Need Area: Friends > General
"Slaves lose everything in their chains, [often] even the desire of escaping from them." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
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[Quote No.46089] Need Area: Friends > General
"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." - Les Brown
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[Quote No.46096] Need Area: Friends > General
"The end [aim] of the law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." - John Locke
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[Quote No.46097] Need Area: Friends > General
"The State is and ought to be nothing whatever but community force organized, not to be an instrument of oppression and mutual plunder among citizens, but, on the contrary, to guarantee to each his own, and to cause justice and security to reign." - Frederic Bastiat
'Government', 1848.
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[Quote No.46098] Need Area: Friends > General
"Liberty means the security given to each man that, if he employs his energies to sustain the struggle on behalf of himself and those he cares for, he shall dispose of the product exclusively as he chooses. It is impossible to know whence any definition or criterion of justice can be derived, if it is not deduced from this view of things; or if it is not the definition of justice that each shall enjoy the fruit of his own labor and self-denial, and of injustice that the idle and the industrious, the self-indulgent and the self-denying, shall share equally in the product." - William Graham Sumner
'Socialism', 1880.
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[Quote No.46099] Need Area: Friends > General
"A presumptive adversary of all in civil society, to obtain the support of some, [the state/government] must become the actual adversary of others [divide and conquer]; if there were no class struggle, the state could usefully invent it." - Anthony de Jasay
'The State', 1985.
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[Quote No.46116] Need Area: Friends > General
"People who are the most resistant to [taking individual responsibility for what happens in their lives and therefore in order to change their results] changing themselves are often the first ones to [try to interfere in the inalienable human rights and freedoms of others and] pressure others to make changes for them." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.46126] Need Area: Friends > General
"But to manipulate [deceive women and] men, to propel [coerce, force] them toward goals which you — the social reformers [often statist collectivists] — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence [their individual free will and right to choose for themselves], to treat them as objects without wills [and unalienable human rights to life, individual liberty and private pursuit of personal happiness] of their own, and therefore to [dehumanize and] degrade them." - Isaiah Berlin
Philosopher and historian. Quote from 1958.
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[Quote No.46127] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Collectivist or Individualist?] Snowstorms or Snowflakes?...
There are two basic prisms through which we can see, study, and prescribe for human society: individualism and collectivism. These worldviews are as different as night and day, and they create a great divide in the social sciences. That’s because the perspective from which you see the world will set your thinking down one intellectual path or another...
I think of it as the difference between snowstorms and snowflakes. A collectivist sees humanity as a snowstorm, and that’s as up-close as he gets if he’s consistent. An individualist sees the storm, too, but is immediately drawn to the uniqueness of each snowflake that composes it. The distinction is fraught with profound implications.
No two snowstorms are alike, but a far more amazing fact is that no two snowflakes are identical either — at least so far as painstaking research has indicated. Wilson Alwyn Bentley of Jericho, Vermont, one of the first known snowflake photographers, developed a process in 1885 for capturing them on black velvet before they melted. He snapped pictures of about 5,000 of them and never found two that were the same — nor has anyone else ever since. Scientists believe that changes in humidity, temperature, and other conditions extant as flakes form and fall make it highly unlikely that any one flake has ever been precisely duplicated...
Contemplate this long enough and you may never see a snowstorm (or humanity) the same way again.
Dr. Anne Bradley is vice president of economic initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics. At a recent FEE seminar in Naples, Florida, she explained matters this way: 'When we look at a snowstorm from a distance, it looks like indistinguishable white dots peppering the sky, one blending into the next. When we get an up-close glimpse, we see how intricate, beautiful, and dissimilar each and every snowflake is. This is helpful when thinking about humans. From a distance, a large crowd of people might look the same, and it’s true that we possess many similar characteristics. But we know that a more focused inspection brings us nearer to the true nature of what we’re looking at. It reveals that each of us bears a unique set of skills, talents, ambitions, traits, and propensities unmatched anywhere on the planet.'
This uniqueness is critical when we make policy decisions and offer prescriptions for society as a whole; for even though we each look the same in certain respects, we are actually so different, one to the next, that our sameness can only be a secondary consideration." - Lawrence W. Reed
Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of FEE - the Foundation for Economic Education - in 2008. Prior to that, he was a founder and president for twenty years of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught Economics full-time and chaired the Department of Economics at Northwood University in Michigan from 1977 to 1984. Published in the article 'Snowstorms or Snowflakes?' February 25th, 2013. [http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/snowstorms-or-snowflakes#ixzz2M3EuJarm ]
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[Quote No.46177] Need Area: Friends > General
"Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened." - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Swiss author
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[Quote No.46179] Need Area: Friends > General
"When you personally are happy, it doesn't make any difference what others have. So the way to counteract envy is to increase your own level of joy.
By mastering joy, you will become free from envy." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Quote from his book, 'Gateway to Self Knowledge', p.225.
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[Quote No.46188] Need Area: Friends > General
"Violent resistance against the power of the state
is the last resort of the minority in its effort
to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ...
The citizen must not be so narrowly
circumscribed [confined - unfree] in his activities that,
if he thinks differently from those in power,
his only choice is either to perish or
to destroy the machinery of state." - Ludwig von Mises
(1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher.
Source: 'Liberalism. The Classical Tradition' (1927), Fourth American Edition (Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, 1996), p. 59.
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[Quote No.46189] Need Area: Friends > General
"[State education, propaganda and censorship:] It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Paul Goebbels
(1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister. Source: Speech, October 1933.
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[Quote No.46205] Need Area: Friends > General
"If a man's [or woman's] rights are inalienable, then people are not morally entitled to violate those rights just because they happen to do so through group [including democratic majority] action." - Robert Ringer
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[Quote No.46206] 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; 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.46222] Need Area: Friends > General
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be [to allow no fraud or deception to occur]." - Socrates
Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.46236] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself [to set an example for others]." - Leo Tolstoy
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[Quote No.46251] Need Area: Friends > General
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus
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[Quote No.46253] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism:] If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself." - Louis J. Halle
(1910-1998) Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva; policy maker at U.S. Department of State. Source: 'The Ideological Imagination', 1972.
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[Quote No.46254] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Those that espouse big, paternalistic governments should remember...] Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right." - Lawrence Auster
Political commentator
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[Quote No.46276] Need Area: Friends > General
"Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service." - Calvin Coolidge
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[Quote No.46290] Need Area: Friends > General
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." - Thomas Jefferson
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