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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Quotes
The extremes people notice most.
This page collects quotes built around superlatives — including a direct critique of George W. Bush's domestic policy priorities, alongside genre-film commentary on luck and poor decision-making. For a look at priority and value elsewhere, see Important quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
- Competitive Advantage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its lowest, most common form, inspiration is simple charisma that becomes magnified by the media, as with Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020