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“C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit... Je vois de la lumière noire.”

“Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.”

“Vous créez un frisson nouveau.”

“L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn.”

“Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!”

“On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.”

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"I think Iraq will have a formally independent government that will be in perpetual gridlock and chaos, and essentially, there will be a U.S. military administration utilizing NGOs that can do a lot of…"

— George Friedman

Literature1949

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"If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures."

— Augusto Pinochet

Politics1925–2006

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"When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than …"

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy1872–1970

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"For the Stalinist bureaucracy, state-property converts labor "from the drab burden it was under capitalism into a matter of honor and glory, a matter of prowess and heroism.” The intelligentsia tells …"

— C. L. R. James

Literature1901–1989

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