"Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses."

-- Jim Hightower

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“Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).”
“I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.378, Vintage
“Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.”

Source : George Ripley (2014). “Five Preparations of the Philosopher’s Mercury”, p.4, Volume Edizioni srl
“Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.”
“The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter, there is no wrong way to become a Christian. It is the end that is importnat, not the means; it does not matter why you believe, so long as you believe. For the philosopher, in contrast, the paramount issue is the justification of belief, not the fact of belief itself.”
“We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.”
“I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.”
“The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.”

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