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“The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory is clouded with repression and a desire to embellish. The recollections of any individual are conditioned by the general truths to which he or she has tried to live. To recall an event is to interpret it, so the truth is altered by the very act of remembering. Therefore the truth, like God, does not exist - only the search for it.”
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“I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.”
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“When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.”
Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2001). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that Makes the Underclass”, Ivan R Dee
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“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”
Source : Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”
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“After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.”
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“With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.”
Source : "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2010. 
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“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”
Source : "Briefwechsel". Book by Moses Hess, p. 253, 1959.
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“In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.”
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“To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.”
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“When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.”
