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Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them… — Winston Churchill
Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that… — Charles M. Schulz
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any… — Ayn Rand
I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I donâ€™t care how condescending that sounds, itâ€™s true.… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. — George Orwell
You are perfect for a female." "Not where I come from." "Then they're using the wrong standard. — J R Ward
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you canâ€™t go to New York, go to the place that represents New… — Walter Kirn
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends… — Harold S. Kushner
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. — Oscar Wilde
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and… — Karl Popper
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for… — Mary Doria Russell
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I… — Ayn Rand
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care… — Kurt Vonnegut
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to… — George Orwell
Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin.… — Ilona Andrews
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to… — Karen Marie Moning
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything… — Blaise Pascal
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards. — Keith Richards
Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best. — Jeaniene Frost

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