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Kurt Vonnegut
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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W. B. Yeats, the second coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
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Luis Rodriguez, Always Running
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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H. L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.
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John Evans
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
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La Rochefoucauld
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
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