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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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James Burnham

Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

Alternative, Alternatives, No Problem, Problem

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An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

Atheism, Attitude, Determined, Interpretation, Observation, Thinking

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

Adding, Emotional, Glowing, Ideas, Liberals, Lurk

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

Ideology, Liberalism, Suicide, Western

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies. . . the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

Economic, Egalitarianism, Hunger And Poverty, Implies, Westerners

Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse.

Causal, Favors, Peace, Relationship, Reverse, War

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Roseanne Barr

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I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look at and think about you.

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Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.

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