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    The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

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Go ahead, make my day.

Go ahead, make my day.

by Clint Eastwood Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found read more

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.

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Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not read more

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

by Olga Korbut Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

by John Dewey Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

by Hilaire Belloc Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

by J. Richard Clarke Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

by Louis Aragon Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...

by Gerald Gould Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

by Iba Ezra Found in: Hatred Quotes, Negativity Quotes,
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