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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information…
— Richard Hamming
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Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they…
— Gerald Vann
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The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value
— Marmaduke Pickthall
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime…
— Pope Francis
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We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns.…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to…
— David Guterson
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It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there…
— Chinua Achebe
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