John Ruskin Quotes
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
John Ruskin
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Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.
Mahmoud Abbas
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.
P. J. O'Rourke
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'
Benito Mussolini
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The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
Peter Fraser
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
Boyd K. Packer
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An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
John Rawls
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If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.
Action Bronson
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... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
John Ruskin