"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level."
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"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity."
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"The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists."
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"Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity."
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"Why would I want to join an organization that would encourage people like myself to become members."
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"If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research"
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"Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms"
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"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert."
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"When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful."
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"There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it."
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"I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all."
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"If you want to wear something, all that matters is that you love it, not what other people think. Learn to love yourself!"
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"Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits."
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"Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see."
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"If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead."
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"Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
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"If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one"
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"Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it."
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"Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are no gods. There are as many gods as there are people thinking about God. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve."
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"[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything."
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