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"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."


Voltaire

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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."


Robert Frost

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"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."


Winston Churchill

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"I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for awhile. Maybe this time it will work."


George Carlin

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"What light is to the eyes ~
What air is to the lungs ~
What love is to the heart ~
Liberty is to the soul of man."


Robert Green Ingersoll

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"By means of all created things, without exception, the Divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagine it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in it's burning layers."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.


Ayn Rand

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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people."


Justice Wm. O Douglas

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"Men are idiots and I married their King."


Anonymous

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"She was in the past now. With every nightfall to come she'd slip further and further away. Her death had been instantaneous, the work of a moment. But I was going to lose her, bit by bit, memory by memory, for the rest of my life."

Caught in the Light by Robert Goddard


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"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others."


Madame Swetchine

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"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."


George Carlin

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"Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever."


Shannon L. Alder

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" 'Are we to understand,' asked the judge, 'that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?'

" 'I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.' "


Ayn Rand

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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive."


C.S. Lewis

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"The desire for gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."


Pericles

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"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."


Patrick Henry

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"There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe."


Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"Disease is discord in the human form, and discords are produced in many ways. The body is a harpsichord, sometimes the strings are too relaxed, and then inharmony results. Sometimes we find the strings too tense, and then another form of discord is induced."


Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ. 74:5,6

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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."


Cicero

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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."


Benjamin Franklin

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"There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually it will be, 'My phone is spying on me.' "


Philip K. Dick

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"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."


John Adams

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"If we put pictures of lost kids on beer cans instead of milk cartons, we'd find them in about 15 minutes."


Anonymous

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"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."


Franz Kafka

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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience."


Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs."


Jim Henson

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"The two most abundant things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity."


Harlan Ellison

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"Men forget everything. Women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened."


Rita Rudner

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"When my boss asked me who is the stupid one, me or him? I told him everyone knows he doesn't hire stupid people."


Anonymous

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"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."


Groucho Marx

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"Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."


Ayn Rand

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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the Continent their fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies...The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."


Thomas Jefferson

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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of Freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."


Thomas Paine

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"A right delayed is a right denied."


Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."


Anais Nin

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"It isn't fair: The Caterpillar does all the work, and the Butterfly gets all the glory."


George Carlin


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"A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running."


Groucho Marx