"No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances ."

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Jeane Kirkpatrick

#Government Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes

“What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.”

Source : "The Early Years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870". Book by Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.
“If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.”
“The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.”
“Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.”

Source : "Darius Green and his Flying-Machine". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, 1910.
“Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.”
“After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.”
“Life never forgives weaknesses.”
“The Congress is a power-oriented party.”

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