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• Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.

  Walter Block

  Freedom, Philosophy, People

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• And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Men, Views, Want

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• The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islam, Trying, Ataturk

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

  Salvatore Ferragamo

  Fashion, Talking, Shoes

  Salvatore Ferragamo, Victoria and Albert Museum (1987). “Salvatore Ferragamo, the art of the shoe, 1927-1960”

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• Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Mistake, Mean

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• People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Marriage, Team

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• The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe.

  Ellen Willis

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Ellen Willis (2000). “Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.

  David Hare

  Creative, Different, Hue

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism

  Murray Rothbard

  Expression, Anarchism, Capitalism

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• The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

  Martin Bormann

  Christian, Doctrine, Socialist

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• I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Government, Self

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• My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

  Zachary Taylor

  War, Honor, Looks

  Zachary Taylor, S. HORN (1848). “All the Letters of Major General Z. Taylor: Anecdotes of rough and ready: Songs of Old Zach's Campaigns, etc. [Edited by] S. Horn”, p.10

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• Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

  Che Guevara

  Ku Klux Klan, Democracy, Oligarchy

  Ernesto Che Guevara (2013). “The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America”, p.256, Ocean Press

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• Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Effort, Development, Demand

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.79, SUNY Press

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• I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Democracy

  "The only living Trump supporter in Silicon Valley" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2016.

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• I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind. Mankind is then a participant in the creation of the universe itself, so that we have a closed loop. I believe that there is a level on which science and religious metaphor are mutually compatible.

  Christopher Langan

  God, Religious, Believe

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• The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

  Yuri Milner

  Life, Intelligent, World

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• Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

  David Chalmers

  Thinking, Views, People

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• The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it's so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don't want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here's a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do.

  Steve Wozniak

  Simple, Iphone, Phones

  "Apple co-founder prefers Android to iPhone", www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2012.

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• In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

  Ali Gomaa

  Mean, Egypt, Modern

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• Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

  Angela Carter

  Parent, Anxiety, Soul

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Light, Punishment

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• An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

  Bridget Riley

  Artist, Mixtures, Conflict

  Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1997). “Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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• An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

  George Soros

  Degrees, Economy, Members

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