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Publilius Syrus
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
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Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
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Theodore Roosevelt
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
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Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
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Joan Vinge
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
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Henry David Thoreau
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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James Bovard
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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Albert Camus
Live to the point of tears.
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