"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

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Source : Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

Will Durant

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“We are the sum of the Father's love for us”
“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.”
“Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment”
“A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media
“The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.”
“The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.”
“We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. People do not learn humility, and because of their pride cannot receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefor the whole world suffers.”
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

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