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• Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wisdom, Military, War

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• When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

  James Monroe

  Christian, Army, Simple

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• The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Men, Enemy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.72, Penguin

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• The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, Numbers, Revolution

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.

  Kevin Myers

  Life, Teeth, Kicking

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• Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Wisdom, Reading, Creativity

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• I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Determination, Time, Jobs

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• All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Government, Two, Evil

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.259

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• Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

  Elizabeth I

  Cheer, Want, Bullets

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• I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  God, Hills, Range

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• In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.

  Irving Kristol

  Children, Successful, Political

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• Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

  Niels Bohr

  Change, Time, Children

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• Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Education, Teaching, Failure

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• It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Law, Liberty

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• God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Infinite, Reverence, Absolutes

  "Patriot King" in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 224-226), 1904.

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• My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Peace, Reading

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• Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

  Jeffrey Klein

  Friends, Technology, Doors

  "As the World Turns" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1998.

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• The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very primitive culture. So, I think we're moving further and further away from that kind of organization of humanity and the same I would say with religion. I think that organized religions, with the exception of Islam, are really falling by the wayside. People are starting to understand that the religious potential is within and that it's an individual pursuit.

  James Wasserman

  Religious, Moving, Fall

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• I want self-determination. If that means having a constitutional monarchy as the first step, fine. But, in the end, people in Bahrain should have the right to vote and choose their president. A single family should not be allowed to rule on its own.

  Zainab al-Khawaja

  Mean, People, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Oil, United States, Today

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• Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

  David Brooks

  Administration, Modern, Structure

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.

  Elizabeth I

  Moving, Allies, Monsters

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• Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

  Ronald Syme

  Blood, Born

  Ronald Syme (2002). “The Roman Revolution”, p.201, OUP Oxford

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