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In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. — Sun Myung Moon
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to… — James Madison
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That… — Fay Wray
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of… — Thomas Jefferson
Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax. — Drake
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill… — Pete du Pont
In a certain state it is indecent to live longer. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of… — Robert A. Heinlein
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what… — Aristotle
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round,… — Dianne Feinstein
Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing… — L. Neil Smith
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at… — Francis Crick
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become… — Rajneesh
Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind.… — Rajneesh
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind… — Rajneesh
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh

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