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• The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Spiritual, Society, World

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• Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

  John Berger

  Passion, Hair, Needs

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• The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

  Denis Donoghue

  Art, Real, Exercise

  Denis Donoghue (1994). “The old moderns: essays on literature and theory”, Knopf

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• On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Looks, Information, Firsts

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• Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

  Thomas Seward

  Birth Place, Cities, Rivals

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• All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed to grasp its true significance and seems to delight in filling only that place created for him by the white man.

  Marcus Garvey

  Struggle, Men, Race

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.11, Ravenio Books

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Territory

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• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Powerful, Numbers, Oligarchy

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• Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

  Ayn Rand

  Successful, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.46, Penguin

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• Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Imperfect, Incompetence, Oligopoly

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.226, Princeton University Press

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• The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, School, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.242

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• The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Government, Important

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.366, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.

  Richard Sherman

  Men, Nfl, Pockets

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• Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Philosophy, Party, Ideas

  "Special Report" With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2007.

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• the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

  Alva Myrdal

  Mother, Father, Home

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.161, Psychology Press

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• money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.

  Christina Stead

  Money, People, Democratic

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• Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

  David T. Kearns

  Education, Today, Captives

  "Parental Choice in Public Schools Gains" by Edward B. Fiske, www.nytimes.com. July 11, 1988.

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• The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stars, Moon, Land

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Two, Luxury, People

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

  Dale Spender

  Mean, Males, Female

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• It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.

  Lydia M. Child

  Christian, Selfish, Government

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• If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.

  Bill Vaughan

  Moving, Thinking, Competition

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