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• Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Home, America

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• Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Reality, Ideas, Risk

  "How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication".

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• Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Atheism, Devil, Strange

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

  Kevin Keegan

  Different, Vice Versa, Beckham

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• When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

  Jack Ruby

  President, Beloved, Has Beens

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• You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, School

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• The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Friendship, Prayer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

  Whitney M. Young

  Race, Color, Black History

  Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”

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• The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Religious, Evil

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, People, Special

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, December 14, 1907.

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• The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Light, Trying, Matter

  Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.

  Georges Bizet

  Strong, Fall, Mean

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• If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

  John Tyler

  Encouragement, Independent, Abuse

  Letter to Robert Tyler, March 12, 1848.

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• After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

  Mary Cheney

  Office, President, Sidelines

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• The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Hangover, Problem, Stuck

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• I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

  William H. Seward

  Party, Selfishness, Virtue

  william h. seward (1852). “speach in the senate”

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• I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

  John Philip Sousa

  Deterioration, Machines, Artistic

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.31, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  Brother, Sea, Two

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• There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Powerful, Fall, Emotional

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• The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings

  Iwan Bloch

  Principles, Example, Veils

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• When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Political, Honor, Progress

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• Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Secret, Mystery

  Samuel Johnson (1948). “The wisdom of Dr. Johnson: being comments on life and moral precepts chosen from his writings”

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• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Evil, Sage

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.

  Scott McClellan

  President, Information, Administration

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.3, PublicAffairs

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• As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors – in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.

  D. James Kennedy

  School, Government, Media

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