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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. – Thomas Hobbes

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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. – Honore de Balzac

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Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. – Albert Schweitzer

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This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. – Nancy Mitford

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