"Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate."
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"He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for."
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"Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king."
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"There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king."
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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
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"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."
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"Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes."
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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"A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king."
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"Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?"
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"Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself."
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"The sea hath no king but God alone."
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"The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king."
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"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."
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"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."
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"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box."
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"I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest."
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"Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."
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"If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw."
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"A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few."
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