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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
History
Try
Depend
Starve
Ways
Must
Find
Democratic
Terrorist
Nations
Oxygen
Which
Publicity
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther
God
Satan
Burden
Will
Beast
Possession
Wills
Wishes
Contend
Nor
Goes
Choose
Rider
Riders
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther
Alone
History
Blood
Wheels
Moves
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
War
Peace
Negative
Must
Merely
Concentrate
Affirmation
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Maximilien Robespierre
Man
Rights
Law
Unjust
Tyrannical
Any
Essentially
Which
Inalienable
Violates
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre
Humanity
Cruelty
Punish
Clemency
Oppressors
Forgive
Them
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Work
Creative
Women
World
Everything
See
Creative Work
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Love
Politics
Power
Harmonies
Draw
Musician
Out
Sounds
His
Artist
Loves
Chords
Violin
Respect the burden.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Respect
Burden
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Power
Prevent
Never
Forbid
Lacks
Should
War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte
War
Business
Barbarians
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolution
Bayonets
Idea
Which
Found
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Constantly
Consult
Opinion
Public
Should
Public Opinion
Thermometer
Monarch
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck
Try
Half
Gentleman
Fraud
Always
Am
Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Class
Sex
Precepts
Unity
Brotherhood
Spirit
Follows
Caste
Absolute
Color
His
Goal
Human
Race
Prejudices
Ignoring
Creed
When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Thoughts
Soul
Power
Feeling
Controlling
Starts
Waves
Possessions
Must
Restlessness
Mental
Through
He
Arises
Leave
Yogi
Behind
Sensory
Techniques
Application
Meditate
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
Paramahansa Yogananda
God
You
Try
Will
Long
Down
Never
Fail
Make
Him
Up
Effort
Get
Often
Again
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
Feeling
Weakness
Paragraphs
Compound
Folly
Wrong
Obstinacy
Opinion
Public
Newspaper
Prejudice
Public Opinion
Right
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
World
Old
Will
Nothing
Everything
New
Always
Been
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Samora Machel
Man
Dog
Wealth
Care
Rich
Medicine
Way
More
Built
Than
Gets
Workers
Whom
Medical
Medical Care
Vaccination
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
Mind
Few
Possibilities
Beginner
Expert
Many
We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.
Sun Yat-sen
People
Political
Political Power
Power
Nation
Control
Nationalism
Our
Recognize
Only
Seize
Allowing
Simply
Does
Discriminating
Politically
Nationality
Different
Against
Mean
Should
Means
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
Sun Yat-sen
Politics
Remember
Dictatorship
Party
Nation
One Party
Would
Only
Civilized
Could
Advance
Merely
Were
Just
Cannot
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh
Word
Lonely
Meeting
Sign
Give
Always
Passing
Friend
Salute
Place
Stranger
Even
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel
Work
Good
Something
Because
Just
Just Because
Succeed
Stands
Chance
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
Success
Work
Hope
Good
Joy
World
Mind
Sense
State
Enterprises
Willingness
Ability
Something
Rather
Invest
Heading
Powerful
Obviously
Well
Because
Same
Going
Deep
Things
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