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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. ↗

— Ron Paul

#conservatives #early #government #him #just

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#apparently #balancing #flags #flying #grand

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers. ↗

— Tom Peters

#finally #lives #offices #reaching #revolution

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#cause #century #changing #conform #evil

The name of Peru was not known to the natives. ↗

— William Prescott

#name #natives #peru

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest. ↗

— Robert Purvis

#lives #obliged #respect #safeguard #strongest

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. ↗

— Francois Quesnay

#land #property #security #sense #still

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow. ↗

— Paracelsus

#breath #causes #flow #flows #his

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#esteem #everything #gives #lightly #obtain

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#child #children #imagination #imaginative #into