The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.
Edward Dowling
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Never endeavor to separate the poor from the rich,for they are one,they originated from the same sou... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & service will ultimately end,but the rich knows that life is all about service... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The only difference between the rich & the poor is how they process their thinking. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford. MARTY RUBIN The mindset of the rich;The rich worship one important word called belief. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;Behind the razmattaz & sparkleness we see in the rich are some shady & unclean past tha... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich trudge along in the uncertain world of entrepreneurship with the hope that belief will resc... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Opportunity maketh the rich. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich are good actors,for they mostly act rich,before they ever become rich. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich have one thing in common,they can afford almost anything money can buy,but what they don't ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich are independent,because they believe & keep believing that they can live independently. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Searching for a persistent & confident person in life? Look no further,just look the way of the rich... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's three events that also pains the rich; exercise, fasting & child birth. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mindset of the rich; I am in charge hence no external factor can control my destiny. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The rich that despise the poor are ignorant folks,for they have forgotten that the bulk... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The advantage of having rich people before you is that you have the opportunity of read... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich have no knowledge of where the shoe pinches the poor,unless the rich had once passed throug... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that are rejoicing having conquered life,should beware & rethink,for no man can conquer dea... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Emulate the rich,for they don't focus on the poverty in the land,but on the prosperity that is meant... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There will always be the rich in our midst because,this world is filled with rich resources which th... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To the rich investment means "my money is departing for a while & will be back multiplied. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich love the word opportunity,even though always dressed in ugly robes,because opportunity make... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that hesitates to help the poor is nothing but a fool,because the funds he uses to finance ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that is interested in others successes & taps into them is wiser & will become richer. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no ... AGESILAUS THE SECOND To the poor investment means "my money will depart from me forever. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor have a penchant for treating money poorly because their minds have been conditioned towards... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the d... GARRY KASPAROV Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses c... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes... ALISON GOODMAN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and... BULAT ABILOV Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that e... PAUL THEROUX By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest... STEVEN A. COULTER Medicine is becoming a business, and if people choose medicine as a way to make money, they should g... TILDA SHALOF The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the ... JEROME WEISNER Another grave fault in our election system is that the campaigns are unduly strung out. [Election Ad... JOSEPH P. HARRIS As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals. CHARLES DICKENS Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, ... BARACK OBAMA You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in e... BENJAMIN KANE ETHRIDGE "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow EDWARD R. MURROW To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to g... THOMAS PAINE In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. The... BILL CLINTON يا راكعين لأمريكا , أنا بريء منكم ناجي العلي The rich treat invaluable time as diamond because without time no money can be made. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Rich believes because they've got money,so others should serve them,No,rather they've been beque... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down. PAUL ROBERT WOLFF I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Give a poor mind $1m & he will still end in poverty because,generating wealth has never been his ide... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The poor have a right that they always fail to exercise,it is the right to become rich. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Most poor will never become rich because their right to riches have been willingly surrendered to th... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell to... NOAM CHOMSKY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spe... NANCY SNOW As we celebrate our history, we remain focused in the present, educating and advocating for a strong... MARIE WALLACE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat... EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight. EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a... EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death. EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly... EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years. EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains. EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate... EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart. EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou... EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c... EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac... EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low. EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes. EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th... EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d... EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy... EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life. EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin... EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you... EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing. EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a... 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Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ... EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ... EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag... EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit... EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde... EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. 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EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w... EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda... EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp... EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu... EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the... EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr... EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability. EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis... EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u... EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b... EDWARD DAHLBERG To write is a humiliation. EDWARD DAHLBERG What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden... EDWARD DAHLBERG Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. EDWARD DAHLBERG The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ... EDWARD BLISHEN By night an atheist half believes in God. EDWARD YOUNG You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h... EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun. EDWARD YOUNG