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• Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

  Joseph Sobran

  Rights, Government, Engineering

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• Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

  Joseph Sobran

  Games, Jurisprudence, Littles

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• In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in polite society only when cursing.... [P]oliticians are often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who, even -- and especially -- when they rather flagrantly ignore his injunctions.... He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean.

  Joseph Sobran

  Xmas, Powerful, Names

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• Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.

  Joseph Sobran

  Gun, Political, Want

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• Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

  Joseph Sobran

  Thinking, Agendas, Merit

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• The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

  Alexander Lowen

  Hurt, Life And Love, Attitude

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

  Alan Blinder

  Next, Kind, Chains

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• Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee.

  Robert D. Hare

  Coffee, Love You, Emotional

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• I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

  Elie Tahari

  Succeed, Homeless

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• Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Hate, War, Doe

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.169, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

  Paul Scott

  Light, Years, People

  Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

  Jack Hyles

  Laughter, Tears, Has Beens

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• To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Knowing, World

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.15, Penguin

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• Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

  Peter Lynch

  Doe, Investing

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• If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Money, Kids

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• I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

  Ward Cunningham

  Worry, Empowering, Decision

  "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 01, 2003.

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• If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

  Alain Robert

  Climbing, Lasts, Firsts

  "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.

  Amanda McKerrow

  Dance, Voice, Ballet

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• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  Chris Cavanaugh

  Life Changing, Communication, People

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• An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.

  Jim Herrick

  Atheist, Doe, Definitions

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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• Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Forgiveness, Apology, Persons

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• The love between a mother and her daughter is special. A mother takes her daughter under her wing and teaches her how to be a woman. In order to do this, you have to ask yourself what it means to be a woman of today. How do you balance care for others with your own quest for meaning and joy in life and how do you pass on these lessons to your daughter?

  Laura Ramirez

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Goodbyes are not forever
  Goodbyes aren't final, when
  You only mean we'll miss you
  Until we meet again

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Farewell, Missing

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• How much I wish I could tell you, Dad
  How much you mean to me....
  But there are no words to say
  How much I admire you...
  appreciate you...
  thank you for everything you've done.
  love you
  Actually, there are
  I've just used them
  How much I wish you
  A happy, happy birthday Dad

  John Walter Bratton

  Dad, Love You, Appreciate

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• I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Thinking, Civilization, Serious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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