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“There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.”
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“Tribalism has become trendy.”
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“The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.”
Source : London Punch Letters, No. 5, 1866.
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“Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.”
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“Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.”
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“The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.”
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“I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.”
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“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.”
Source : The Shoe workers' Journal, Volume 16 (p. 4), 1915.
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“We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.”
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“Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.”
