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In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
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Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
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I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
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We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
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Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
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The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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