Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I started out as a Democrat.
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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Risk is what you make of it.
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The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.
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The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.
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In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
