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Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. ↗

— John L. Lewis

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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

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If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ↗

— Lord Byron

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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. ↗

— Haniel Long

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Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven. ↗

— Christopher Love

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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. ↗

— Christopher Love

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The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Richard Lugar

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The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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