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"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Granting, as Lenin wants, such absolute powers of a negative character to the top organ of the party, we strengthen, to a dangerous extent, the conservatism inherent in such an organ."

"In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help."

"We find ourselves on the brink of a decision, a decision to break with the arcana of the one and the multiple in which philosophy is born and buried, phoenix of its own sophistic consumption."

"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literature

1802–1838

"The Little Boy’s Bed-Time See under Translations"

"So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore."

"If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?"

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🇺🇸David Brooks (journalist)

Literature

b. 1961

"...list of different spheres of her life: reflection, creativity, community, intimacy, and service."

"It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten."

"The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life."

"“Why should conservatives care? We have every interest in seeing rock culture destroyed and crushed."

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🇺🇸William Lloyd Garrison

Journalism

abolitionism

1805–1879

"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."

"I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing."

"Diogenes, on being sold as a slave at Corinth, was asked by the auctioneer what he could do. "Rule men," he replied. "Do you suppose," asked the other, "that people want to buy masters?"

"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before."

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

"Memory is everywhere, in the ways we think of ourselves and tell our stories. There are certain kinds of people who have more of a sense of who they are and their whole life story."

"I want to be a writer of violence…I think the more you talk about violence, the more you can undo violence…"

"He walked on in silence for a while, thinking of all that he had seen. And the sum of his thought was a sickness against the whole hypocritical system that was despoiling an incredibly rich planet."

"Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers."

"The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation—to put a better face on evil than it normally wears."

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🇺🇸Karen Thompson Walker

Literature

b. 1981

"The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice."

"Mussolini was a reluctant fascist because, underneath, he remained a Marxist, albeit a heretical one."

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🇨🇦Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Literature

1825–1868

"The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough - too much perhaps in some respects - but at all events, liberty to our hearts content."

🇺🇸Thomas Lansing Masson

Journalism

1866–1934

"If you want to be a flaming youth, you must have money to burn."

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🇨🇦Robert Fulford (journalist)

Journalism

1932–2024

"His rise to the status of Republican presidential candidate will stand as a unique historic achievement."

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🇬🇧Oyinkan Braithwaite

Literature

b. 1988

"As an individual I’m attracted to strong female characters – my characters have always been people who own themselves. Even if they’re strongly doing something wrong, they’ve always been powerful people."

"Georgians have a proverb: "custom is stronger than faith". It reflects Georgians' belief that the past is always trumps."

"Jack Malebranche’s Androphilia: A Manifesto"

"Education of the people will only then be possible, when the obstructions thereto have been removed. And that will not take place until the entire present system has been destroyed."

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