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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchill

Socialism, Blessings, Capitalism, Virtue

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer

Life, Music, Cats, Pet, Two, Refuge

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare

Life, Sea, Men, Lose, Tide, Now

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. - Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal

Alone, Men, Quiet, Sit, Room, Being

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. William Samuel Johnson

Hope, Sickness, Poverty, Comfort, Every

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. Robert E. Lee

Me, People, Government, Sword, Will

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Swami Vivekananda

Faith, I Am, More, Been, Very, Large

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions. Donald Trump

Tomorrow, Space, Pride, Stand, Free, New

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Rudyard Kipling

Fire, Small, Stand, Meet, Want, Places

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Henry Ward Beecher

Climb, Mankind, Upward, Except, Those

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice. Shelby Lynne

Choice, Comfortable, No Choice

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. Benjamin Franklin

Great, Value, Things, False, Made, Part

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Name, Own, Why, Others, Our

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. Benazir Bhutto

Feel, Voice, Lost, Now, Right, Departure

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus

Men, Control, Know, Nothing, Over, Much

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. Colin Wilson

Rain, Man, Cow, Standing, Average

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. Sophocles

Words, Present, Pleasure, Some, Bring

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle

Source, Faults, Summary, Egotism

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad

Legal, Climb, Mankind, Upward, Which

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. Jane Birkin

Love, Myself, Me, World, Out, Because

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Man, Age, Old Age, Dead, Old

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster

War, Men, Bible, Ambition, Slavery, Vice

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. Dorothea Dix

Train, Crime, Create, Petty, Errors

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. Victoria Abril

Love, People, Television, Show, Coming

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. Oscar Niemeyer

Dreams, Daily, Humanity, Survive, Only

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. Philip Massinger

Fall, Lost, Doubt, Us, Despair, Than

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