"Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Loss Quotes #Gains Quotes #Made Quotes

“I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.”
“Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.”
“How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?”
“People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.”
“Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.”
“Love is the victim's response to the rapist.”

Source : Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine (London), 14 Sept. 1969
“And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.”
“The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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