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• The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Italian

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

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• Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It preys on millions of victims in order to allocate valuable goods and services to its beneficiaries.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Agency, Government, Political

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• I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Character, Unanswered Questions

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• This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic.

  Julius Evola

  Spiritual, Political, Roles

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• The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

  Alfred Adler

  Children, Mind, Fiction

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• It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Brother, Men

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• The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.

  Russell D. Moore

  Dream, Jesus, Heaven

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• I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Believe, Appreciate

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• We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Desire, Needs, May

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• Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

  Simon Critchley

  Political, Citizens, Regulation

  Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books

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• Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Psychics, Skills, Goal

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• It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.

  Richard Branson

  Mind, Important, Body

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• In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Light, Hands, Gentle

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• Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.

  Catherine Ponder

  Air, Giving, Wish

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• Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Believe, Simulacrum

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.175, Stanford University Press

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• If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Reception, Founding

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6454, Delphi Classics

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• In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Oil, Lamps, Burning

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• We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Kids, Adventure, Giving

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• There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

  Elliott Abrams

  Israel, Decision, Way

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• The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Nwo, Political, Tasks

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• We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Giving Up, Passion, Earth

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• The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

  Peter Drucker

  Today, Tomorrow, Relevant

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• I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Play, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.

  Michael Pollan

  Sports, Nice, Thinking

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• The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, People, Economic

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