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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley

Life, Good, Art

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas Sowell

Win, Making, Actually

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

Government, Country, Ready

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

Anger, Nothing, Hurts

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell

Yourself, Fair, Simply

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams

Betrayal, Distrust, Defense

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer

Thought, Jesus, Spirit

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
Warren Buffett

Through, America, Paid

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Tori Amos

Love, Trust, Someone

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher

Art, Sickness, Medicine

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Faith, Wise, Keep

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry Pratchett

Alone, Brave, Old

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda Meir

Through, Tell, Order

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen

Alone, Jealousy, Feeling

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Among, Prince, Evils

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous Huxley

Knowledge, Thought, Before

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Adversity, Struggling

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine

Reason, Weapon, Errors

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Decision, Results

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy Graham

Religion, God, Christ

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

Ignore, America, Cannot

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo

Boat, Reaction, Current

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whether, Influence, Complex

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Free, Group

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Everything, Off

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson

God, Best, Perfect

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks

Nature, Yourself, True

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
James Herriot

Love, Felt, Cats

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
Billy Graham

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