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Marquis de Sade
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Will Rogers
I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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William Shakespeare
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
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Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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William Shakespeare
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.
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Confucius
The cautious seldom err.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
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Claud Cockburn
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
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Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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Napoleon
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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