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"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?" »Howard Zinn
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"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal." »Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
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"Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas." »Charles Fillmore
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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum." »Thomas Szasz
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"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil
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"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men." »Homer
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"union gives strength." »Aesop
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"I do not believe the union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other." »Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided
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"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet union." »Joseph Stalin
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." »French Proverb
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"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The bastards murdered half my family. (on being asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union)" »Prince Phillip
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"Children form a bond of union than which the human heart finds none more enduring." »Livy
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"My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me." »Claiborne Pell
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"It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God." »Thomas Merton
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"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy
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"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in." »Margaret Cho
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"California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death." »William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
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"We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race." »Cicero
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"Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers." »US Supreme Court
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"What do you gain, Soviet union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)" »Golda Meir
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots." »George Santayana
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana
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"The Soviet union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party." »Ronald Reagan
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"Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: “Warmly welcome to our family”. Our new Europe is born." »Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
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"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality." »The Divine Pymander
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"The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves." »Jefferson Davis
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"The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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