“ Success depends less on the general superiority of one's intellectual powers, than on their peculiar adaptation to the work at hand. ”
- William Mathews- Copy
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“ We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders… ”
- Sue Monk Kidd- Copy
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“ It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. ”
- Montesquieu- Copy
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“ There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. ”
- Charles de Montesquieu- Copy
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“ If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ Land monopoly is not the only monopoly which exists, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. ”
- Frank Robinson- Copy
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“ There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. ”
- Milton R. Sapirstein- Copy
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“ The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military. ”
- William Orville Douglas- Copy
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“ I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area. ”
- Janeane Garofalo- Copy
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“ Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. ”
- Pete Holiday- Copy
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“ All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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“ The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
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