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Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.
Author: Frank Flores
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Author: Irving Kristol
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
Author: Lord Harold Caccia
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Author: Isaac Goldberg
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Author: Georges Bernanos
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
Author: R A Dickson
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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Author: Ernest Jones
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Author: William Cowper
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Author: Malcolm Bradbury
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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
Author: Aristide Briand
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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Author: Randolph Churchill
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Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
Author: Arnold Edinborough
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Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
Author: Francois Fénelon
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It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
Author: Ivan Goncharov
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Power tires only those who do not have it.
Author: Giulio Andreotti
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Author: Honore De Balzac
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Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
Author: Giovanni Ruffini
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We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.
Author: Peter Prichard
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Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Author: William L. Shirer
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If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).
Author: Thomas Sowell
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
Author: Frederic Bastiat
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Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.
Author: Arthur Koestler
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Author: Bill Vaughan
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I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.
Author: Anonymous Politician
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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Author: Eugene Mccarthy
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Darkness yields to
starlight,
to the light of the rising
sun, and to the
light of the soul.
Author: Dennis Kucinich
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It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to compel the White House to substantiate its claims. The President led the nation to war, and spent at least $63 billion on that war, on the basis of these unfounded assertions. ~ Rep. Dennis Kucinich
http://www.kucinich.us.
Author: Dennis Kucinich
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This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last
3 presidential elections do that?
Author: James Carville
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Author: John Hay
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Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Author: Henry George
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The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
Author: Edward Heath
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
Author: Edward M. Forster
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Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".
Author: Joan Manley
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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"What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
Author: Max Stirner
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When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
Author: Brian S. Wesbury
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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