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“I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.”
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“What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.”
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“Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.”
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“If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.”
Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
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“We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.”
Source : Tommy Douglas' address at the Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.
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“The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.”
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“It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it...”
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“The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.”
