"The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history.Â ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state."

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James B. Weaver

#Struggle Quotes #Taken Quotes #Law Quotes

“As for UFO's ... I do believe there is a dimension that we don't understand. Not sure about little green martians, though.”
“That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.”
“I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dogâ€”cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.”
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
“It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.”

Source : Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.30
“Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.”
“You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.”
“Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.”

Source : "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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