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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. ↗

— John Adams

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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view. ↗

— Roger Ailes

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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that? ↗

— Alan Alda

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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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