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  • A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal.
        Alphonse Desjardins   Best?
  • To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
        E. Kim Nebeuts   Best?
  • I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
        Jay Gould   Best?
  • Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.
        Cesar Chavez   Best?
  • There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
        Washington Irving   Best?
  • Follow what you love!...Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
        Georgie Anne Geyer   Best?
  • For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.
        Marcus Tullius Cicero   Best?
  • Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish.
        Yeghishe   Best?
  • America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
        Lyndon B. Johnson   Best?
  • There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
        George Washington   Best?
  • It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
  • There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
        Cicero   Best?
  • I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
        Immanuel Kant   Best?
  • The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
        Elizabeth Stone   Best?
  • When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and there was nobody left to be concerned.
        Pastor Martin Niemoller   Best?
  • We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
        Shana Alexander   Best?
  • You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
        John Stuart Mill   Best?
  • No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
        Meg Cabot   Best?
  • There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.
        Rollo May   Best?
  • Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?
        William Butler Yeats   Best?
  • A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
        George Santayana   Best?
  • Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
        Dr. Thomas Fuller   Best?
  • War is only a continuation of state policy by other means.
        Karl von Clausewitz   Best?
  • Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
        W. Clement Stone   Best?
  • The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.
        Alexander Woollcott   Best?
  • There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
        Wendell Willkie   Best?
  • Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
        Oswald Spengler   Best?
  • Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
        Budd Schulberg   Best?

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