Lord Acton Quotes
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Ed Miliband
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Vince Lombardi
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
Daniel Espinosa
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I allege that SCO is full of it.
Linus Torvalds
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Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
Anthony Daniels
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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
Yasmin Mogahed
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
