"Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure."

-- Joseph Addison

#Evil Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.”
“As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe.”
“The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' address at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities in Saskatoon, March 13, 1951.
“Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.”
“Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures Making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone.”
“When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.”

Source : 1926 The Art of Being Ruled.
“Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”
“Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.”

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