"The corruption of man is followed by the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange
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You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors.…
— Michele Bachmann
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both…
— Glenn Beck
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually…
— David Brin
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the…
— Sherrod Brown
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