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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Bertrand Russell

Capitalism Liberty Tyranny Apt Must Embodied Restrained Sacred Over Principles Exercise Advocate Very Maxim Unfortunate Which Fortunate Appeal

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. Benjamin Franklin

Truth Experience World Will Defense Ought Philosophical Apt Entered Temper Disturb Take Never Wrong Support Opinions Leave Sour Quiet Any Controversy Them Right Disputes Rejected Chance

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. Roy L. Smith

Parenting Better Preaching Apt Examples Than Forget Listen Children Watch

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. William Hazlitt

Hope People Own Others Apt Neighbors Insignificant No Hope Rising Self Most Safe Self-Esteem Sneer Esteem Lowering

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. Harold MacMillan

Man Trust Apt Kind Nobody Trusts Who

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. George Eliot

People Duty Apt See Most Course Which Painful Conscientious

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. W. Somerset Maugham

Apt Perfection Dull Grave Defect

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. Aaron Hill

Youth Judge Lose Medium Wild Extreme Apt Haste Ever

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.' Daniel Dennett

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. Harry S Truman

Good Too Apt Being Uninteresting

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. Herbert Beerbohm Tree

God People Treat Too Apt Minor He Were Royalty

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. John Maynard Keynes

Apt Opinion Discovering American Interested Average Believes

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. Logan Pearsall Smith

Walk Apt Gutter Idealists Towers Come Very Ivory Straight Downstairs

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. Tacitus

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom. Marianne Williamson

Today Freedom Slow Our Apt More Color Tennis Democratic Coming Erosion Than Shoe American Against Average Average American Rebel Right

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal. Atul Gawande

Reality Care Apt Point Heal Any Intensive Harm

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. B. C. Forbes

Apt Mutual Only Repeated Yields Bargain Satisfaction

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers. Billy Childish

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