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“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'”

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Author:Lillian Gordy Carter

“Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.”

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Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”

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Author:Barry Goldwater

“The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.”

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Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.”

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Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”

“The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.”

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Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.”

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Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.”

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Author:George McGovern