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• How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

  John Brunner

  Ambition, People, Resentment

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.107, Macmillan

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• It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Important, Generations, Action

  1882 The State in Relation to Labour.

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• Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Community, Fundamentals, May

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

  Virginia Foxx

  Successful, Unions, Bills

  "House Passes Sweeping Food Safety Bill". Kathryn A. Wolfe, Congressional Quarterly, July 30, 2009.

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• Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.

  William J. Clinton

  Europe, People, Progress

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

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• Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Office, President

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• Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

  David Icke

  Drug, President, Shapes

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• The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.

  Francis Parkman

  Religious, Expectations, Volunteer

  Francis Parkman (1871). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.60

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• Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.

  Frederick Soddy

  Civilization, America, Missing

  "Morning of the Magicians" by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Berger, (p. 181), 1963.

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• We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

  L. Neil Smith

  Technology, Tasks, Wonderful

  "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Des Moines". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 29, 2008.

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• All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Country, Catholic, Reason

  Jean Baptiste Say (1821). “A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes”, p.211

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• When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.

  Masao Abe

  Mean, Dying, Birth

  Masao Abe, Steven Heine (1992). “A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion”, p.169, SUNY Press

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• Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Art, Creativity, Imagination

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• Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?

  Ellen Willis

  Meaningful, Ice Cream, People

  "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

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• A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.

  Ilana Mercer

  Reality, Ideas, Differences

  "Apartheid South Africa: Reality Vs. Libertarian Fantasy". praag.org. December 20, 2013.

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• At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Persistence, Past, Men

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Errors, Differences, Finals

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• We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Generosity, Remembrance, Each Day

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

  John C. Danforth

  Believe, World Religions, Yugoslavia

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 2, September 19, 2006.

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• Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.

  Ali al-Sistani

  Party, Law, Office

  "Top Iraqi Shi'ite cleric rejects Baathist law". www.reuters.com. April 2, 2007.

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• The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

  Zheng Bijian

  Party, Unions, Harmony

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• Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Heart, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.1

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• The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.

  Bernard Lewis

  Philosophy, War, Iran

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• Marco Rubio announced he's running for president. Fun fact: Marco Rubio's wife is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. In other words, she knows how to generate fake enthusiasm for someone who's not going to win.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Fun, Winning

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• Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment when Romney bit off Holyfield's other ear.

  David Letterman

  Two, Hopeful, Presidential

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