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• The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, People, Support

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.99, Routledge

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• Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

  Bjork

  Lying, How You Feel, Emotion

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• There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Successful, Light

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Powerful, Sleep, White

  Hunter S. Thompson “Hunter S. Thompson's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas”, IDW Publishing

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• But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Hurt, Impact, Names

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2010). “Ten Things I Hate about Me”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride. --Max's Voice

  James Patterson

  Voice, Max, Incredibles

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• It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial? Wiling sacrifice of deeply held personal desires in favor of the will of God is very hard to do. Yet, when you pray with real conviction, "Please let me know Thy will" and "May Thy will be done," you are in the strongest position to receive the maximum help from your loving Father.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Real, Sacrifice

  "Trust in the Lord". Talk by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. October 1995.

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• You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Stuff, Hong Kong, Tokyo

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Important, Doe, Add

  Pier Paolo Pasolini (2005). “P.P.P., Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Death”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Aids

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• A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Teacher, Helping, Good Teacher

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• Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.

  Walter E. Williams

  Night, Sight, Average

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• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

  James M. Cain

  Country, Writing, Character

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• Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Believe, Profit, Term

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• Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Reality, Agreement, Desire

  Martin Cruz Smith (2011). “Polar Star: A Novel”, p.212, Ballantine Books

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• Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

  Charles Stanley

  Requirements, Brokenness, Usefulness

  Charles Stanley (2013). “NASB, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, eBook”, p.863, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Devil, Degrees

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• The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

  Stirling Moss

  Climbing, Achievement, Example

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• Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

  Michael Korda

  Work, Males, Method

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• In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

  Ward Churchill

  Israel, Years, Punishment

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.15, City Lights Books

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• Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

  Mark Hall

  Long, Each Month, Criminals

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• There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Opportunity, Player, Order

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• It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

  Irrfan Khan

  Wish, Actors, Reach Out

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• It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

  Steve Backley

  Winning, Secret, Accepting

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• I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll be what you want me to be'. If we could do that, we would be assured of the maximum happiness here and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God hereafter.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Mean, Wish

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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