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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.…
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen…
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human…
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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the…
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently…
— M R DeHaan
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Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
— Khalil Gibran
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Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I…
— Robert Byrd
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Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites…
— Robert McKee
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You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff…
— Todd Akin
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from…
— Henry Miller
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