“ Too often, governments have operated in a vacuum, believing they could come up with some magic formula to which they have an exclusive patent. ”
- Kim Campbell- Copy
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“ The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 1K
“ I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 738
“ Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. ”
- Basil Hume- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 277
“ We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. ”
- Jim Morrison- Copy
- 112
“ The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity - deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. ”
- Jeremy Taylor- Copy
- 468
“ Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. ”
- William F. Buckley Jr.- Copy
- 244
“ We believe it's the most restrictive set of guidelines... established by a medical school. ”
- David Coleman- Copy
- 3K
“ There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal. ”
- Charlotte Bunch- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'. ”
- Sue Halpern- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
- 225
“ How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 272
“ No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ”
- Alfred Austin- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The superior person is dignified but does not fight for it. He is sociable, but not exclusive to one social clique. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 741
“ If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ”
- Sylvia Plath- Copy
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“ It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Is there something mutually exclusive about running an airline and making a profit? No. Southwest Airlines, a low-cost, fewer-frills operation, managed to make a profit in 2001 despite 9/11 - And, undaunted by the industry's alleged scary future, Southwest, Jet Blue and AirTran Airways - less than one year after Sept… ”
- Larry Elder- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Lolly was possessed by a fiendish, auntielike excitement when on the trail of a hot exclusive, and would sit at her telephone all night long if necessary, interpreting the denials of those she was interrogating as the great horned owl interprets the squeaking of distant mice. ”
- Paul O’Neil- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Let's remember this potential drilling area is only a 2,000-acre site inside a 1.5 million-acre coastal plain. You can balance the needs of conservation and exploration - they're not mutually exclusive. ”
- Craig Thomas- Copy
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