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The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. ↗

— Kenneth Kaunda

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Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. ↗

— David Miliband

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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