Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. ~Adam Sandler
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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