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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
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From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the…
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If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
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The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is…
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Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with…
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Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
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For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is…
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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the…
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you…
— Ray Charles
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined…
— Samuel Johnson
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization…
— Thomas Paine
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the…
— Joan Didion
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