Schemes Quotes

• Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

  Bayard Rustin

  Birth Place, Mind, Plot

  Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.

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• We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Working Together, Needs, Saving

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• The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Culture, Rich

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

  Robert Burns

  Change, Men, Best Laid Plans

  "To a Mouse" l. 39 (1786) See Dickens 67; Disraeli 7; Modern Proverbs 102; Orwell 17; Plautus 3; Proverbs 2; Sayings 25

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• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, Immigration, Scams

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• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

  Max Baucus

  Shapes, Today, Facts

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• Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

  Jesse Helms

  People, Support, Bureaucracy

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• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

  Robert Burns

  Art, Pain, Philosophical

  Robert Burns (2009). “The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns”, p.48, Princeton University Press

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• Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Self, Generosity, Way

  Chogyam Trungpa (2003). “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Morning, Moving

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.49, Penguin

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• When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

  William Osler

  Planning, Fit, Circumstances

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• You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Mistake, Accepting, Blunders

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

  Chief Joseph

  Father, Men, White Man

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• In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

  Samuel Butler

  Circles, Squares, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods,  are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

  Samuel Adams

  Government, Ideas, Community

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• There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

  E. W. Howe

  Girl, Men, Wealth

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• Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

  Alan Moore

  Firsts, Chaos, Authority

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• Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goal, Ignorant, Ministry

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Ideas, Ruins

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• ‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.

  Umera Ahmed

  Brother, Sky, Differences

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• We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic drilling scheme should be dead on arrival. Americans are clamoring for a clean Congress and a clean energy plan, but sadly they were shortchanged on both today.

  Carl Pope

  Regret, Oil, House

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• The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Wisest Man, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

  John Sweeney

  Money Laundering, Management, Structure

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• The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years

  David Willetts

  Years

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