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These were big ones, those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

Quote by John Perkins about companies, country

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part...

Quote by John Perkins about history, cheating, man, world, life, people

We knew Saudi Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and invest them in U.S....

Quote by John Perkins about home, house

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

Quote by John Perkins about nation, tests, drugs, security, lie, culture, money, power, sex, day

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Quote by John Lennon about life, contentment

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

Quote by John Wesley about good, contentment, good luck, people

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

Quote by John Wesley about opinion, present, god, things

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me...

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Quote by John Gay about opinion

She who has never loved has never lived.

She who has never loved has never lived.

Quote by John Gay about woman

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a...

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Quote by John Calvin about god, truth

Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set him...

Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

Quote by John Calvin about opinion, fire, fire brigade, rest, day, man, life

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master...

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Quote by John Calvin about people, mother

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the...

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Quote by John Calvin about knowledge, smoke, science

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover...

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Quote by John Calvin about joy, suffering, order, contentment

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Quote by John Calvin about bad, miracle, devil

The torture of a bad conscience is the Hell of a living...

The torture of a bad conscience is the Hell of a living soul.

Quote by John Calvin about conscience, hell, bad luck, soul, bad

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others...

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

Quote by John Clare about poetry, voice, face

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the...

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

Quote by John Clare about death, time

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own.

Quote by John Clare about enemies

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good...

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

Quote by John Clare about action, difficulties, bad luck, bad, nothing, world, good, good luck

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