Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.
– AE Samaan
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- Sometimes the boxes we’re put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self. – Sarah Hackley
- Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission. – Deborah Feldman
- The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people’s lives. – AE Samaan
- Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. – AE Samaan
- Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few. – AE Samaan
- The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism. – AE Samaan
- Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. – Jeanette Winterson
- There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. – Thomas Pynchon
- Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
- Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go. – Henri JM Nouwen
- Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that. – Tiffany Madison
- Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. – Kahlil Gibran
- Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren’t living. – Thurman P Banks Jr
- While some consider God’s standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing. – Craig Groeschel
- This is not a meritocracy. – Sallie Tisdale
- Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment – Christopher Hayes
- Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished – this is the essence of meritocracy. – Imran Khan
- Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition. – David D Friedman
- …if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. – GE Moore
- There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. – GK Chesterton
- You may not find the opportunity to succeed, but you can always find the opportunity to serve. Then serve to succeed. – Debasish Mridha
- If I don’t succeed, I will try again and never stop trying.When I succeed, I will again explore new opportunities. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don’t start you will never succeed. – Oscar Bimpong
- If at first you don’t succeed, try again.If you still don’t succeed, blame someone else. – Jeffrey S Trosin
- People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places. – Israelmore Ayivor
- We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet. – Marty Rubin
- Adventure lies not in the places we seek, but in the moments we create in the places we treasure. – Rochelle Carr
- And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome. – John Elder Robison
- All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go. – Linwood Barclay
- I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here. – Edna Ferber
- London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day – Mhairi McFarlane
- Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time. – AJ Dalton
- The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The map showed human places I’d never heard of – places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn’t theirs to claim. – Anne Bishop
- going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside-”to say, -˜This is the way it was.’ – John McPhee