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What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.


Ebenezer Elliot

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What is a communist? One who hath yearnings / For equal division of unequal earnings.
EBENEZER ELLIOTT What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler...
EBENEZER ELLIOTT There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
VISCOUNT SAMUEL The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
ARISTOTLE Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
LAURENCE J. PETER Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor u...
ISAAC NEWTON The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist afte...
BHALCHANDRA A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introdu...
SHINZO ABE The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of soci...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The character of Elliot is one of a polite, chivalrous, modern Jimmy Stuart who you do not see much ...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified bef...
DOROTHY DAY This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equ...
ALLEN WEST Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in fre...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for wha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The Soviet Union model of what a Communist country is supposed to look like doesn't work for China. ...
JAMES GREEN What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of ...
HENRY GEORGE What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of ...
HENRY GEORGE God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.
JIM ELLIOT If you are going to be in that type of position, you better even things out. All men are created equ...
DANNY FORTSON The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of ...
MILOVAN DJILAS No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.
WOODROW WYATT Elliot is a great hitter and has good pop for a second baseman. He's proving he can hit the ball to ...
GABRIEL MARTINEZ What a day for Elliot. He's a great kid. He works hard, has a sweet swing and it's nice to see when ...
BILL COKER All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Katie is a great player. She has one of the purest jump shots in Division I.
NOELLE QUINN What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthfu...
CHANAKYA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
JOHN STUART MILL One who does not like to read is equal to one who cannot read.
VIKRANT PARSAI Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies ...
BOBBY SCOTT One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN What we have here is a system of separate colleges, and separate in this case is inherently unequal.
MICHAEL BEALS When they have interacted, it's been because one division didn't like what another division was doin...
MICHAEL GOODMAN I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist p...
DENNIS MILLER Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you wit...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
JOHN STUART MILL One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
JOHN STUART MILL One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.
JOHN STEWART MILL One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
PETER MARSHALL One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywh...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
HILAIRE BELLOC Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
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DEAN NAUJOKS He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona...
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C. JOYBELL C. Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies ...
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SCOTT BRAY Warren is a Division 1 player. There's many levels of Division 1 play. He really gets after people o...
WENDELL BYRD I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don...
ELLIOT MABEUSE One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
JOHN STUART MILL When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... The market has been weak in the last few days on a number of worries. One of them has been earnings....
JOSEPH LISANTI Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The downfall of humanity is called division!! Races, division! Colors, division, Countries, division...
PHILIP T. M. One misconception is that we work for insurance companies or the Division of Worker's Compensation. ...
DR. MAC JOHNSON My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
DEYTH BANGER To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is o...
HERBERT SPENCER I'm proud to say what started with one individual has now grown to many equal-minded people and the ...
CINDY WINSTEAD Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Just because you don't want to see something doesn't mean that it will go away. Do you think inhuman...
BETHANY GRIFFIN What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separ...
DONNA BRAZILE There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANT Beginning this fall, the $7 has been divided into two equal $3.50 deposits - one deposit for fall an...
JEFF EDWARDS It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goa...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite fran...
GEOFFREY FISHER It's not just what you deliver, but what your future is likely to hold. I feel like there is a lot o...
JACK CAFFREY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.
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JESSE JACKSON What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his ...
SATYAJIT RAY Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
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BEN ROMANS And Elliot Easton of The Cars (who plays a guitar solo on the album) — we're all huge Cars fans, an...
BEN ROMANS As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON Division II schools will give four kids who play the same position $1,500. They bring them all in fo...
JOHN MIECH [WHY:] Elliot Spitzer is one of the greatest Attorney General's in the history of this nation, ... H...
BRUCE RAYNOR More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and art...
ANDERS RASMUSSEN More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and art...
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN Miranda Robison is one of the strongest players in the nation. Division 1, Division 2, it doesn't ma...
JOHN MILLER Elliot: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship.
Greg: Well, can't he...
E.T. Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
BECKY LYNCH Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
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ELISABETH ELLIOT The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate ...
JIM ELLIOT Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
ELISABETH ELLIOT Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that...
ELISABETH ELLIOT ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spiri...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un...
ELISABETH ELLIOT When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu...
ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
JIM ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne...
ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona...
ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to...
ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie...
ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot...
AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh...
ELLIOT WASHINGTON Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
JIM ELLIOT This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What...
JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ...
JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu...
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