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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte |
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The bullet that will kill me has not yet been cast.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Tedium is the bane of immortality.
-- Neil Lowe |
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There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
-- Neil Lowe |
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Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
-- Neil Steinberg |
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It's better to burn out than fade away.
-- Neil Young and Crazy Horse |
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli |
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli |
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I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli |
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It's better to be feared than to be loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Nichollio Machivelli |
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He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see,
He tries to tell me what I put inside of me,
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity,
He dreamed a god up and called it christianity.
-- Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) |
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I became a god once. Realized it was a step down, and quit.
-- Norm Papernick |
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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
-- Norm Papernick |
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.
-- Norman Mailer |
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You're obliged to pretend and respect people and instituitions you think absurb. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization that make you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy if life and all felling of personality, becuase at every moment they supress and restain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
-- Octave Mirbeau |
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