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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
-- Ursula K. LeGuin |
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Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run from those who have found it.
-- Vaclav Havel |
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When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.
-- Venita Cravens |
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
-- Victor Hugo |
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People reduced to the extremity of need are also driven to the utmost limits of their resources, and woe to any defenseless person who comes in their way. Work and wages, food and warmth, courage and goodwill - all is lost to them. The daylight dwindles into shadow and darkness enters their hearts; and within this darkness man seizes upon the weakness of woman and child and forces them into ignominy. No horror is then excluded. Desperation is bounded only by the flimsiest of walls, all giving access to vice and crime... they appear utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and infamous are grouped together, merged in a single fateful world. They are Les Miserables - the outcasts, the underdogs.
-- Victor Hugo |
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People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
-- Victor J. Stenger |
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What is to give light must endure burning.
-- Viktor Frankl |
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Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming."
-- Virgil |
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
-- Voltaire |
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I do not approve of a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Voltaire |
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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.
-- Voltaire |
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... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre |
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
-- W. Somerset Maugham |
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
-- W. Somerset Maugham |
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
-- Walter Savage Landor |
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