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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
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No one who has not been siezed by the merderous jaws of the viper can know it's poison fangs.
Adolf Hitler
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When I was born, I was black. When I grow up, I'm black. When I'm ill, When I die, I'm black. But you - When you're born, you're pink. When you grow up, you're white. When you're ill, you're green. When you go out in the sun, you go red. When you're cold, you go blue. When you die, you're purple. And you have the nerve to call me Colored?
Malcolm X
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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
Seneca
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucious
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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
Homer
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To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Benjamin Franklin
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Women should be obscene and not heard.
Groucho Marx
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp
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In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.
Bruce Sterling
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When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming. I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky.
Walter Slovotsky
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When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!
Jack Nicholson
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Jane Austen
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Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
Leo Tolstoy
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Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Bellamy Brooks
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
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Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
Robert A. Heinlein
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Woody Allen
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To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?
Confucious
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
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