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• Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder.
  We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school.
  But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Years, Long

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• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  Ben Bernanke

  Business, Principles, Fiscal Policy

  "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". Ben Bernanke's Remarks Before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002.

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• Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Struggle, Mean

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939".

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• We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

  Julius Nyerere

  Freedom, Mean, Rhinos

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• Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Mean, Foundation

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.519, University of Alabama Press

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• If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Intelligence, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.59, Routledge

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• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

  Garry Wills

  Leadership, Goal, Three

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Skills, People

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• Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction. Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is!

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Together

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• Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Mean

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• We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Peace, Children, Stress

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• Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

  John A. Macdonald

  History, Political, May

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• I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Long

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• Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.

  Russell D. Moore

  Wall, Believe, Government

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• Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the deeply divisive issue of religion - especially when their results tend to support a highly unpopular, atheistic conclusion.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Issues, Religion, Wish

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning to their existence, they reject the possibility of no God. In their minds, only a purposeful universe based on God is possible and science can do nothing else but support thistruth.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Mind, Religion, Atheism

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• When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Ideas, Elderly

  Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1977.

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• It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Travel, Differences, America

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

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• It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Littles, Causes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Antichrist (上帝之死)”, p.540, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Animal, Wind

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.5, Harper Collins

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