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Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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