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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Abraham Lincoln In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
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-- Vladimir Nabokov Personal Pages
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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-- Rose Kennedy "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
