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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead…
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The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement…
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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its…
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of…
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There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.
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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar…
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of…
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Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when…
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Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
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Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind…
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an…
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It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never…
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings…
— Pope Paul VI
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of…
— Albert Einstein
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Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
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