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#stance

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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.


Henry A. Wallace


#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.


Miguel de Unamuno


#makes #only #personality #persons #root

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.


Alfred Russel Wallace


#among #attempted #birds #case #complete

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.


Martha Washington


#depends #dispositions #greater #happiness #misery

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.


Diane Watson


#before #between #connect #dots #each

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.


Isaac Watts


#always #appearances #as far as #circumstances #depth

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.


Irvine Welsh


#because #circumstance #extreme #frame #humanity

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.


William Wilberforce


#circumstances #clear #conduct #doing #duty

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.


Marianne Williamson


#capacity #circumstances #either #little #love

It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.


Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero


#between #commitment #democracy #differ #distance






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