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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Power Something Assumed Discarded
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Times Politics Right side Lose
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All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

Crisis Debt Fashion Payment
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books

Bad book Repent Ignorance Power
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Leaders Confront People Time
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Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Law Modesty Virtue
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Economics Hope Faith Desire
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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent

Decision Virtue Force Eloquent
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The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.
Capacity Belief Great Convenience
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth

Wonderful Majority Assailed Truth
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Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding
Wealth Enemy Understanding
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War remains the decisive human failure.

War Decisive Human failure
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Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.

Capitalism Exploits Socialism True
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One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read

Pleasures Writing Work Read
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Wealth Advantages Case Persuasive
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It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Wars Generations Ignorant Heart
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We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.

Peace Lives Bound Destruction
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Endures Love Death Endures
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Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Life Land Dead Love
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I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Friendship Shortcomings Parents
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There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Special Gifted People World
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What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me

Deceived Happiness Peace World
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Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death

Live Christ Flesh Death
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I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit

Feared Devil Tremble Time
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

Books Writer Reader Shadow
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

Reader Author's Intent Reality
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I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Lacking Confidence Ghosts Chase
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I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

Money Problem Make What
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I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

Understand Somebody Sense Humor
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I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Like Design Details Self-expression
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Power Tax Destroy
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The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

Lively Equal Reality Opera
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The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land

Government Powers Action Law
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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

Law Nature Contract Rights
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What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

Trust Judges Independence Office
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What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

Democracy Justice Faith Virtue
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The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Law Man Life Act
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The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

People Constitution Will Lives
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The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

Moment Measure Wise Constitutional
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Ideas shape the course of history.
Ideas Shape Course History
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Investment Ignorance Time Future
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

Capitalism Belief Men God
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil

Ideas Interests Dangerous Good
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Men Love Money Security
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid

Economist Humble Competent Splendid
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

Problem People Accept New ideas
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Work Government Despise Criminal
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

War Fool Cruel Reality
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We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Forever Hide Truth Ourselves
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The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Political values Free society Few Threaten
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