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We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

Bill W.
Sobriety, Revolutionary, Individual

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

Charles Koch
Powerful, Believe, Rich
"Charles Koch: I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society". "The Wall Street Journal", April 2, 2014.

Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.

T. B. Joshua
Encouragement, Genuine, Discouraging

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

Janis Joplin
Hippie, Tired, I'm Tired

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Thorstein Veblen
Life, Beautiful, Eye
Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.26, e-artnow

Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue.

Paul Smith
Art, Cousin, School

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

Tatum O'Neal
Call Me, Temper, Abusive
"Tatum O'Neal shares survival story". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2014.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

George Scialabba
Wings, Nails, Hammers
Source: thenewinquiry.com

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

Tom O'Connor
Disease, Desperate, Hope And Love
Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

Pope Francis
Cities, Firsts, Enlightening
Pope Francis (2013). “Lumen Fidei: The Light of Faith”, p.52, Image