"Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought."

-- John Ruskin

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“As for the Folsom Prison show, ... would anybody have the guts to do that show now 50 Cent, maybe I think the whole idea of even playing to a crowd of people like that is so politically unfavorable now - it's like, 'What are you doing, singing for these people Do they deserve it' There's such anger in our culture right now, that kind of grace and forgiveness, we don't see that very often.”
“Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.”

Source : "Democracy could have saved Europe from the single currency". Interview with Daniel Hannan, capx.co. February 5, 2015.
“These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.”
“At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.”
“The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”
“Consensus: â€œThe process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: â€˜I stand for consensus?”
“People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them”
“Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings”

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