"'Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.'"

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“A rational disposition must necessarily preclude a romantic outlook in life, and only the failures of this world can afford to dispense with a rational disposition.”

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“'He wasn't just being selfish, he was being realistic. Marriage would have been very difficult if not downright impossible.'”

“'Friendship's best,' I said, 'and friendship's forever because no baby can come along to spoil it.'”

“Kester wrote about people and since human nature doesn't change his observations hadn't dated.”

“Again, be patient. And have courage. Remember, everything passes, even the most unspeakable horrors.”

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"Americans are becoming increasingly polarized right and left, with the great body of the people in the middle confused and, sometimes to mask their confusion, feigning indifference."

— Eldridge Cleaver

Politics1935–1998

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"... a day will come, at a bigger Court than this, when we shall see which is right and which is wrong. No matter how long a man lives he is bound to come to judgement somewhere, and as well here as an…"

— Ned Kelly

Entertainment1854–1880

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"In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future."

— Emil Cioran

Philosophy1911–1995

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"When I was a boy, while watching the funeral procession of the Great Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC, I observed a rickety wooden cart being pulled by two mules and behind the cart, a sea of people. In …"

— Robert Davi

Music1951

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