Carroll Quigley Quotes
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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I owe everything to France.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
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It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
