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Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…
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Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one…
— Lee Strobel
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We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on…
— Jim Calhoun
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Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around…
— Martin McGuinness
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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and,…
— Aristotle
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We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.
— Hugh McCutcheon
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Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our…
— John Wooden
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize…
— Jimmy Carter
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We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion.…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.
— David Beckham
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Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.
— John Key
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We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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