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• The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

  Anthony de Mello

  Cutting, Expression, Law

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.

  Alex Comfort

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Government

  In the Preface of "People Without Government" by Harold Barclay, p. 7, 1982.

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• Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.

  Leonhard Euler

  Wise, Perfect, Doubt

  "A method for finding curved lines enjoying properties of maximum or minimum, or solution of isoperimetric problems in the broadest accepted sense". Book by Leonhard Euler, 1744.

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• What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Equal Pay, America

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Goal, Cynical

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, 2003.

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• At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

  Jaron Lanier

  Running, Giving, Minorities

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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• The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Distance, Ingredients, Ideology

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

  John P. Kotter

  Culture, Way, Succeed

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.174, Harvard Business Review Press

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• At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

  William Poundstone

  Understanding, Able, Paradox

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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• Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.

  John C. Dvorak

  Holiday, Successful, Cities

  "Microsoft Retail Stores Will Rival Apple Stores". www.pcmag.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it has been known to save the day with modern titles, too. But to have it as the agreed-upon way to how you play video games on Linux is completely unacceptable for several reasons, both technical and moral.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Wine, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Luboš Doležel, www.abclinuxu.cz. March 08, 2011.

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• Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Good Life, Acquisition

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• If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Father, Men, Order

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Years, Iceland, People

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• The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Atheism, Belief

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

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• Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

  George F. Kennan

  People, Secret, Atheism

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• I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it.

  Yo Gotti

  Dream, People, Work Ethic

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• If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

  J. J. Watt

  Want, Great Work, Results

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2014

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• The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Real, Law

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.55, Hoover Press

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• All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

  David Graeber

  Levels, Communism, Social

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
  [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

  Plautus

  Evil

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• From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Sacrifice, Views, Comfort

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

  Coco Chanel

  Health, Light, Nightlife

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