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• John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If they had won the day, and Reagan had failed, the Soviet Union would still exist, as would all the harm and suffering it unleashed, and American security would be far weaker as a result. And if they win this election thanks to a promise to undo the Reagan-Bush Doctrine, those cheering loudest will be the most evil-loving among us.

  Mark Levin

  Cheer, Winning, Evil

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• It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

  Kenneth Clark

  Book, Sight, Giving

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• I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, World, Adrift

  "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen, www.wsj.com. November 13, 2009.

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• Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.

  John Mayer

  Thinking, Addresses, Scared

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• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  Bob Graham

  War, Successful, Iraq

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• If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

  John Taylor

  Prayer, Work, Men

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• It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

  Seth

  Simple, Upside Down, Assumption

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• War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Country, War, Mean

  "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War". Book by George Francis Robert Henderson, 1898.

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• To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

  Adam Smith

  Liberty, Examination, Taxes

  Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.405

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• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

  Adam Smith

  Law, Justice, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776)

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• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

  Adam Smith

  Self, Purpose, May

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.274

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• And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

  Steve Forbes

  Cheater, Shenanigans, Pay

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

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• Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Wonderful, Hindsight

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• Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Feminist, Awkward, Feminism

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• When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.

  James Beard

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

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• I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

  James Beard

  Morning, Coffee, Food

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• One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

  Jayson Blair

  Lying, Weakness, Happens

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• How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.

  Bob Marley

  Men, Yeah, Unification

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

  Eric Davis

  Doctors, Half, Sides

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

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• Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Space, Interesting

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• Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!' But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company-I mean hell.

  John Adams

  Reading, Mean, Should Have

  John Adams (1973). “John Adams: a biography in his own words”

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• If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

  John Linder

  Strong, War, Father

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• The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.

  Black Hawk

  Lying, Home, Men

  Quoted in Samuel G. Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 11th ed. (1841)

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• I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Dream, Scene, Caps

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• Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

  John Norman

  Girl, Men, Addresses

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