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«The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Injustice,
Voting
| Keywords:
breaking, destroying, devised, devises, devising, imprison
«The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit.»
«The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.»
«The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Aristocracy,
Democracy
| Keywords:
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«The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ahead, and then, at the start, breaking, Breaking up, break into, break with, complex, complexes, first, First Ones, getting, Getting started, get started, into, manageable, one, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, secret, small, started, starting, start up, tasked, tasking, tasks, then, the first, The Secret
«Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Enemies,
Excellence
| Keywords:
breaking, excellence, fighting, resistance, supreme
«The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others.»
«Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them»
«The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
breaking, crack, crack down, criminals, criminal law, declares
«Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
breaking, involves, perfection
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