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• What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Mean, Power

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• The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Justice, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.395, NYU Press

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• If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

  Johan Huizinga

  War, Civilization, History

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• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• ... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Religious, Real

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• Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.

  Garry Wills

  Christian, Religious, Book

  Garry Wills (2013). “Under God”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• [My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

  Michael J. Fox

  Father, Son, Lasts

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• If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.

  David Elkind

  Children, Perspective, Parent

  David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.26, Da Capo Press

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• It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this view is that traditional and nontraditional families can all be seen to serve the interests of children. Children can also feel comfortable with an approved family form, even if it is not traditional.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Views, Important

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• Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it

  David Brooks

  Country, Order, Accomplishment

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• Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Doubt, Energy, Consolidation

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• The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization... Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.'

  D. James Kennedy

  Children, Men, Race

  "Kennedy Calls for Constitutional 'Firewall' to Protect Marriage". Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, November 19, 2003.

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• What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, God, Art

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• [The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  War, Historical, Development

  "International Systems: Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Politics" (1975) by Kenneth Boulding (p. 375), as quoted in "Non-offensive defence for the twenty-first century" by Bjørn Møller, Håkan Wiberg, (p. 36), 1994.

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• Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Management, Knows

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• When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Training, Helping, Management

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• A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Mistake, People, Management

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• Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

  Propertius

  Death, Fading, Fortune

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• The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Desire, Ascending, Requirements

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan.

  Chuck Hagel

  Support, Community, Wave

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• Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Machines, Synthesis

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Interesting, Generations

  "Colin Firth and Tom Hooper interview: The King's Speech, Rocky IV and more". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. Jan 6, 2011.

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• You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Thinking, Matter

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December, 2011.

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• I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.

  Christina Aguilera

  Home, Men, Independence

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.

  Desmond Tutu

  War, Ignorance, Winning

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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