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The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are enough forces in the world that are afraid of our strength, “our hugeness,” as one of our sovereigns said. So,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
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Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
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