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It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy. ↗

— Christopher Bond

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Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying. ↗

— Brian Eno

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When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost. ↗

— Edward Bond

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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings. ↗

— Julian Bond

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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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