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8782 quotes by 4671 authors
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Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is…
— T. Harv Eker
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Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a…
— George Washington
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I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the…
— Michael Parenti
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If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.
— Jay Leno
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The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
— Joseph Sobran
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If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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I will form good habits and become their slaves.
— Og Mandino
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The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required…
— M. Scott Peck
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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from…
— Herman Boerhaave
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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But…
— Karl Landsteiner
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The…
— Fritjof Capra
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such…
— Michael Faraday
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It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical…
— David Lack
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The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the…
— Francis Collins
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