Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Author: Gore Vidal

Author: Gore Vidal

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If we would have God in the closet God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying t

Author: E. M. Bounds
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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
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All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control oth

Author: Bryant McGill
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We tend to suppress our anger against each other which ultimately leads to big quarrels some day. If

Author: Deep Trivedi
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I am not a wishing well with legs. (Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to

Author: Adrián Lamo
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How can people trust social media over newspapers today?

Author: Joel Landau
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May you find grace and power of the Holy Spirit to give you hope for a new life.

Author: Unknown
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The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

Author: Agona Apell
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...story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, onl

Author: Kathleen Smith
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I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to main

Author: David Suchet
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The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the depa

Author: Jack Layton
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I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.

Author: Stan Slap
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Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

Author: Deborah Sandella
Quote #95863

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is import

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable

Author: Leonard Koren
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.."I let people walk away, the one who loved me, the one who cares for me, I push them to their limi

Author: gracetamio
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely re

Author: Perry Anderson
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of al

Author: Ann Landers
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Author: Robert Lynd
Quote #379715

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

Author: S.D. Chrostowska
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I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating

Author: Deborah Meyler
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We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

Author: Dick Van Patten
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringin

Author: Jerome K. Jerome
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.

Author: Billy Crystal
Quote #11046

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Author: Unknown
Quote #373168

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography correspond

Author: Roland Barthes
Quote #419790

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Author: Nancy
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebo

Author: Dr. Seuss
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You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is be

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

Author: Kesha
Quote #414187

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Author: Julia Ward Howe
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I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's now

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Quote #438151

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

Author: Holly Near
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I am such a classic fool, aren’t I?” “No, not a fool. Just in love,” “It’s all the same.”“No, it’s n

Author: Sapan Saxena
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Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to st

Author: Mark Sanborn
Quote #59694

She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important."Yeah right. Tell that to any girl

Author: Vivian Vande Velde
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There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Quote #296092

Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of surv

Author: Jonathan Heatt
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Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Author: Ann Leckie
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Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Author: Ben Jipcho
Quote #60669

Audrey turned to him, a sly little spark hiding in her eyes. "THe only man who gets to call me'love'

Author: Ilona Andrews
Quote #380992

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my sha

Author: J.M. Barrie
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Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recove

Author: Jane Austen
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Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock a

Author: Nick Rhodes
Quote #4720

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water un

Author: Unknown
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There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt des

Author: William Manchester
Quote #2245

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, foll

Author: Kahlil Gibran
Quote #116822

You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut th

Author: Jenim Dibie
Quote #356003

Ok.. So are you goin’a let him bluetube your tweeter?

Author: Bella Bancroft
Quote #3880

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Author: Albert Einstein
Quote #268845

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

Author: Erik Larson
Quote #416040

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

Author: Wernher von Braun
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Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, an

Author: Jade Jones
Quote #405410

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament.

Author: Charlton Ogburn
Quote #335929

The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need

Author: Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Quote #492200

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So,

Author: Anant Agarwal
Quote #361499

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is

Author: Andrew Schneider
Quote #119737

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

Author: Morrissey
Quote #72691

I'm saddened by the loss of Black Diamonds that we bury by the thousands every year never knowing th

Author: Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Quote #176324

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

Author: Russell L. Ackoff
Quote #331939

It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,But in the after-sil

Author: George Gordon Byron
Quote #136560

Your EYES not only see everything around you AS IS, but also PROJECT what you wish look in this worl

Author: Ramana Pemmaraju
Quote #166381

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they'

Author: Jon Ronson
Quote #259099

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then

Author: Laila Lalami
Quote #89566

Respect, love, trust; Every such thing works both ways.If yeu want someone to respect yeu, yeu must

Author: Sandesh Hukpachongbang
Quote #187690

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

Author: Paulo Freire
Quote #149246

It’s not enough to wish, dream, hope. Even children know this. We must set sail into the sea of unce

Author: Vironika Tugaleva
Quote #351089

They don’t see what they’re doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.

Author: Amy Neftzger
Quote #351369

All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless

Author: Chris Matakas
Quote #343515

Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obs

Author: Pamela H. Hansen
Quote #390851

Proper apologies have three parts:1) What I did was wrong.2) I feel badly that I hurt you.3) How do

Author: Randy Pausch
Quote #312829

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absu

Author: Agatha Christie
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Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind

Author: Algis Valiunas
Quote #123374

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not t

Author: Meg Rosoff
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To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from inter

Author: Daniel Alexander Brackins
Quote #311274

A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us

Author: Shannon Tanner
Quote #237687

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the effo

Author: David Hume
Quote #52197

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Author: Daphne Rose Kingma
Quote #489112

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and prot

Author: Jesse James Garrett
Quote #53396

If you fear that defending your boundaries is being controlling, don't worry. There is a difference

Author: Adelyn Birch
Quote #151827

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled

Author: Carlos Castañeda
Quote #70440

Don’t become that which you fear most.

Author: Lisa Cypers Kamen
Quote #361885

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior t

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quote #84932

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stol

Author: Mort Sahl
Quote #466542

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love

Author: Daniel Craig
Quote #82612

Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.

Author: Suzy Kassem
Quote #478187

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisio

Author: Goldie Hawn
Quote #371942

Marketing is about spreading the love.

Author: Jonah Berger
Quote #424674

We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went u

Author: Peter FitzSimons
Quote #353961

It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it

Author: Andrew Levkoff
Quote #122038

But when States did debase the coinage, it was always from purely fiscal motives. The government nee

Author: Ludwig von Mises
Quote #406746

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do th

Author: C. S. Lewis
Quote #65756

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.

Author: Amit Ray
Quote #16574

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Author: John F. Kennedy
Quote #266073

It's only when you learn, live and give sincere service that you can experience life's deepest fulfi

Author: Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Quote #272773

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary

Author: Lincoln Steffens
Quote #272554

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.

Author: Paulo Coelho