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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
Jimmy Carter
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
Tariq Ali
Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.
Yves Chauvin
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Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
Ellen G. White
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I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.
Tyson Gay
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Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
Timothy Noah
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.


Barry Bonds
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.


Aneurin Bevan
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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Peter Brimelow
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My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
Joyce Carol Oates
I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.
Chrissy Teigen
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
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I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.


Francisco Goya
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In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
Pope Francis
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History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
Gwen Ifill
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
Debbie Ford
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I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.
Moby
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.


William Graham Sumner
People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
Meredith Whitney
I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
Wentworth Miller
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