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John Ralston Saul quote: "Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an..."

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. Fiona Shaw
My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. Johnny Isakson
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon. Ann Coulter
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In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. Herodotus
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence. David Bohm
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I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line. Robert Kirkman
If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience. Bryn Terfel
The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it. Rick Derringer
It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming. James Patterson
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Canadians, do not vomit on me! Elizabeth Hardwick
It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it. Evan Davis
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. Vladimir Nabokov
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Every experience makes you grow. Elisabeth Shue
Francis Bacon quote: "Knowledge and human power are synonymous."
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Francis Bacon
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