"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
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"Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?"
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"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
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"The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise."
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"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us"
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"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."
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"If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum."
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"God created sex. Priests created marriage."
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"Common sense is not so common."
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"The more a man knows, the less he talks."
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"What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on."
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
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"Dare to think for yourself."
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"We are all guilty of the good we did not do"
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
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"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
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"May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies."
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"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need."
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"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"
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