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• The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Different

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.353

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• [A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Safety

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Games, Chess Game

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• The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women.

  Saddam Hussein

  Military, Real, War

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• It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Religious, Advice, Focus

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• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

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• The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Determination, Men

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1976). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900”, p.384, University of Illinois Press

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• Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Determination, Attitude

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.135, Crown Business

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• Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Marijuana, Impact, Hair

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• The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Lying, Buddhism, Roots

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• There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Believe, Grace

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• Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Dream, People

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.206, e-artnow

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• We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Self, Doubt

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• The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Silence, Mind

  Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.486

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• A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Adventure, Science, Emotional

  "Chemistry in Britain". Quoted in E.J. Bowen's obituary of Hinshelwood, "Chemistry in Britain", Vol. 3, 536, 1967.

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• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.

  William Crookes

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1989.

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• We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Optimistic, Optimism, Imperfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1595, Manonmani Publishers

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• I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

  John Quincy Adams

  Friendship, Strong, Cheer

  JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.21

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• Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.

  Colin Powell

  War, Fighting, Impact

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• A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Long, Infidelity

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Civilization, Mind, Example

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Dark, Medicine, Political

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• Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

  Dick Taylor

  Errors, Battle, Events

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• We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

  Paul Krugman

  Hiking, Adverse Effects, Political

  "Better Pay Now" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2013.

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• We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

  Robert E. Wells

  Disappointment, Character, Temptation

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