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As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient… — Tammy Bruce
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty… — Thomas Jefferson
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond… — Samuel Johnson
When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps… — Rumi
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time… — Thomas Jefferson
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,… — Edward Lear
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the… — Benjamin Disraeli
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the… — Terry Brooks
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating… — Aristotle
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the… — Sun Tzu
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. — Sun Tzu
Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and… — Thomas Jefferson
I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to… — Rajneesh
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action,… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in… — Alex Faickney Osborn

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