Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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Not the day only, but all things have their morning. ~French Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. ~Ron Paul
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Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. ~Joyce Meyer
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~William Prescott
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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