![In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs were quashed, the Savings and Loan program was trashed, the deficit was tripled, unions were busted, Housing and Urban Developing was in shambles, banks were closing, the military got lots of new toys, the religious right was strong, and AIDS was ignored.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-his-second-term-ronald-reagan-completed-the-work-of-his-first-term-the-ri.jpg)
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Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us. Dan Brown
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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke. Ambrose Bierce
religious government faith-religion
... I have sworn upon the altar of god... Thomas Jefferson
religious faith-religion blood
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.
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religious belief
Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.
religious reason
One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are religious. They just don't like the form it takes.
religious law wish
I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so. S. T. Joshi
religious atheist teaching
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.
strong people opinion
It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
strong gold tragedy
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. D. H. Lawrence
strong responsibility wish
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.
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How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed....
strong sex rocks
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.
strong believe ignorance
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strong believe acting
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military school army
I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store. Debby Ryan
military two-sides preparation
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military important defense
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget. Rand Paul
military two band
Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine. Nick Lowe
military forever dare
To dare, and again dare, and forever dare! Georges Danton
military army soldier
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms. George S. Patton
military enemy purpose
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose. B. H. Liddell Hart
military war mean
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
military army stronger
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