"It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement."
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"Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil."
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"Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce."
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"I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take."
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"They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist."
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"One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy."
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"Ignoring facts does not make them go away."
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"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."
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"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."
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"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."
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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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"When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late."
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"Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?"
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"Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others."
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"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
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"Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does."
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"None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us."
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"To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another."
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"Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!"
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"You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does."
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