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Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means… — Unknown Author
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes… — Elisabeth Elliot
What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is… — Milton Friedman
She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more than himself; that another's suffering could… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class… — Jacques Ellul
The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The… — Ludwig von Mises
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This… — Max Weber
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more. — Annie Dillard
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one… — Alan Watts
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a… — Ayn Rand
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to… — Immanuel Wallerstein
When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible. — Immanuel Wallerstein
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and… — Charles Baudelaire
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and… — Adolf Hitler
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its… — Mark Twain
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;… — Saint Augustine
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we… — James Hillman
There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love. — Peter Kreeft

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