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The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security… — Walt Whitman
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce… — Brooks Stevens
The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty… — Tony Blair
We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real… — Uri Geller
People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about… — Meg Whitman
I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has… — Dalai Lama
When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I… — Richard Branson
I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make… — Condoleezza Rice
Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate… — Hugh Laurie
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees — C.S. Lewis
An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must all hang together, or assuredly,… — John F. Kerry
Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy. — Eve Curie
My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did… — Sylvia Pankhurst
The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old… — Al Gore
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. — Doug Larson
It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told… — Mike Thompson
The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new… — Barack Obama
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes… — Barack Obama
The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part… — Abraham Lincoln
Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others… — Johann Sebastian Bach
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population… — David Attenborough
What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not… — Stephen King
When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I… — Kim Basinger

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