#succeeds

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#friend #little #me #something #succeeds

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. ↗

— John Updike

#end #ends #heaven #held #ideal

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. ↗

— Bob Black

#application #coercion #law #official #succeeds

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#sometimes #succeeds

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. ↗

— Neil Bogart

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Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. ↗

— David F. Houston

#any #barley #crop #feed #grain

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding. ↗

— John Cleese

#always #america #because #chances #else

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#does #down #extent #fall #go

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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