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• Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

  Simon Winchester

  Kansas, Earth, States

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• Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, Data

  "An Economic 'Plan'?". www.creators.com. September 09, 2012.

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• When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

  John Heywood

  John Heywood (1867). “The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).”, p.21

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• It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Government, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton's speech in US Senate, June 21, 2006.

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• The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.

  Robertson Davies

  Strong, Party, Passion

  "The Pleasures of Love". Book by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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• There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.

  I. F. Stone

  War, Mean, Play

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.27, PublicAffairs

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• Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Play, Drawing

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.334, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Doubt, Selfishness, Purpose

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

  Bette Midler

  Giving, Birth, Virgins

  "Mud will be Flung Tonight". Live album by Bette Midler, 1985.

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Perfect, Heaven

  "The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory". Book by Milton Friedman, June 1, 1970.

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• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fall, Self, Long

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, (Ch. 10), 1897.

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• Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Intellectual, Elements

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1944.

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• The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

  William Plomer

  Eye, Yellow, Needs

  William Plomer (1973). “Collected poems”

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• We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.

  Kofi Annan

  Mind, Needs, World

  YouTube Chanel "Skoll.org"/ "Kofi Annan: The World I'm Working To Create", www.youtube.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Fire, Air

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• Hyperinflation is not going to happen in this country, will never happen... The Fed putting so much money into the system is not going to create the risk of hyperinflation in the future. We have a strong independent Federal Reserve with a very strong mandate from the Congress, and they will do what's necessary to keep inflation low and stable over time.

  Timothy Geithner

  Country, Strong, Independent

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Likes, Affair

  "Russia in Defence Warning to US". news.bbc.co.uk. April 26, 2007.

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• A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

  John Rawls

  Justice

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.498, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.

  Jose Saramago

  Writing, Feet, Able

  "Interview with Katherine Vaz". BOMB Magazine, June 2001.

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• Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Running, Horse, Earning

  "Lalu to teach management at IIM-A". in.rediff.com. August 30, 2006.

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• The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

  Ian Bremmer

  Curves, Risk, Transition

  "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.

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• The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

  John C. Danforth

  Moving, Government, Quality

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 154, September 19, 2006.

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• If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Achievement, Development

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”

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• Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let’s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.

  Khalid Yasin

  Mother, Responsibility, Australia

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• I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

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