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Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.
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The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.
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I am happy to announce that we have reached an agreement on the question of transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
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Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
