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7249 Least quotes by 4306 unique authors
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We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than…
— Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
— Leon Spinks
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So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious…
— Roz Savage
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint,…
— Max Weber
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What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble,…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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... for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least…
— Barack Obama
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A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes,…
— Ken Wilber
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If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
— Liz Carpenter
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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could…
— K. Eric Drexler
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Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences…
— John F. Kennedy
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On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live…
— Jonathan Swift
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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy…
— Chris Hedges
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The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes,…
— Jacob Schiff
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The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.
— John Templeton
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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
— Mark Twain
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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one…
— Karl-Henrik Robert
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The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.
— Brian Tracy
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Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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