#lis

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. ↗

— Kenneth Kaunda

#eventually #maintains #power #state #violence

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#carried #facts #figures #hard #i

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#another #beatles #bed #best #cry

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#does #god #listen #me #mean

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject. ↗

— David Douglass

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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't. ↗

— Harold Ford

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As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#already #box #constantly #english #had

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#connected #dynasty #even #family #go

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. ↗

— Alvin Lee

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