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«Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.»
Author: Irving S. Shapiro
| Keywords:
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«The government is becoming the family of last resort»
«The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| Keywords:
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«Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
last resort, reduce, resort, The Last Resort
«PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Judgement,
Value
| Keywords:
concerning, consideration, judgments, Last Judgment, last resort, resort, stupidities, symptoms, The Last Judgment, The Last Resort, value judgment
«What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
errors, irrefutable, last resort, resort, resorted, resorting, The Last Resort
«Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
consistency, last resort, resort, The Last Resort, unimaginative
«The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
arms, last resort, protect, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, retain, retaining, Right to bear arms, strongest, The Last Resort, tyranny
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