It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
~ Roger Scruton
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It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.
~ William Butler Yeats
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It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.
~ Dean Acheson
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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
~ Anton Chekhov
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A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.
~ Umberto Eco
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
~ Ernest Hemingway