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A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.
— Brent Scowcroft
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
— Thomas Carlyle
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He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
— George Washington Carver
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How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of…
— David Hume
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Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
— Bertrand Russell
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The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history…
— Thomas Berry
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards…
— Winston Churchill
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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
— William Wordsworth
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..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want…
— Esther Hicks
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate…
— John Calvin
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It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man…
— Seneca the Younger
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Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this…
— Naomi Wolf
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It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really…
— Eileen Atkins
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed,…
— Joseph Butler
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I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the…
— Donal Logue
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As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if…
— Unknown Author
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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,…
— Winston Churchill
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. . . when I look round to see how we can win the war I see that there is only one sure path .…
— Winston Churchill
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America,…
— Murray Rothbard
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.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally…
— Unknown Author
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O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy…
— E E Cummings
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It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.
— Fern Britton
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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course…
— Eleanor of Aquitaine
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