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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation. ↗

— Ang Lee

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This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. ↗

— John L. Lewis

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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

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