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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#like #memory #nails #our #sentences

The motive power of democracy is love. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#love #motive #power

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. ↗

— Tony Blair

#care #feel #know #lives #misunderstood

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. ↗

— Tony Blair

#free #freedom #security #spread

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. ↗

— Tony Blair

#defeat #defeated #just #meeting #minds

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. ↗

— Tony Blair

#day #event #expect #going #killed

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#communicate #fan #fans #had #i

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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