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Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.
I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.
I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."
If you believe you are the city on the hill, the world's best hope, it is tempting also to believe that outside your boundaries are barbarians.
We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.
Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.
Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre. Let us also celebrate the JOYS.
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.