the totality of U.S. military interventions have not left lasting, meaningful democratic institutions.
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Francis Fukuyama
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The End of History.
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These aren't two separate problems. In many instances the responses are the same.
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There is no question,
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Fixing the Middle East is only part of the problem. It is a West European problem, too.
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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
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One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
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For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
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Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
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FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES
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FRANCIS QUARLES
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON
All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON