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• Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

  James Cook

  Trying, Credit, Benefits

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• It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?

  Nancy Sinatra

  Sexy, Video, Sensational

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• My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its neighbors, so it reminds me of a British seaside resort. If my three teenage sons are in town, we'll play some cricket on the flat, hard sand where the water breaks, just to really confuse the locals!

  Piers Morgan

  Beach, Teenage, Son

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• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Men, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added

  Groucho Marx

  Two, Dinner, Firsts

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• Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, Drug, Periods

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• There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Real, Asia, Firsts

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• I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort.

  Cornel West

  War, Army, Thinking

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• What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them . . . the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.

  James Madison

  Exercise, People, Giving

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• Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

  Angela Davis

  Firsts, Problem, Prison

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• It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Consent Of The Governed

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.114

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• Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

  Franklin Graham

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

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• When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

  Neil T Anderson

  Flesh, Conflict, Lost

  Neil T. Anderson, Steve Russo (1991). “Seduction of Our Children”, Harvest House Pub

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• The government is becoming the family of last resort.

  Jerry Brown

  Family, Men, Lasts

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• Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

  George Osborne

  Government, Printing Money, Lasts

  "Easy money: George Osborne lets Bank of England print £50billion more cash to stave off recession" by Graham Hiscott, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2012.

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• Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

  Tamora Pierce

  Men, Vocabulary, Lasts

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.614, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Patriotism, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

  Emily Bronte

  Enemy, Violence, Ends

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.492, Penguin

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• We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Prayer, Ideas

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• The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Book, Philosophical

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.130, NavPress

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• Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugationthe last arguments to which kings resort.

  Patrick Henry

  Love, Kings, War

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Order, Credit

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• When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Mouths, Flattery

  Dale Carnegie (0101). “Best of Dale Carnegie Vol-I”, p.34, Prabhat Prakashan

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• In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Christian, Adversity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 7), 1895.

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• In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Winning, Reality

  "Elizabeth Warren: ‘Hostage Taking’ Is All Republicans Have Left" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2013.

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