"No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Government Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Long Quotes

“David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . â€˜page-turnerâ€™ is an understatement.”
“I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.”
“It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!”

Source : Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts on False Teachings”, Harvest House Pub
“It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.”
“I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.”
“Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?”
“You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.”

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