"If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it."

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“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”

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“I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.”

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"The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one."

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— Jaggi Vasudev

Music1957

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"There is one compromise and one only, and that is the United Nations. If the United States and Britain go to the United Nations and the United Nations says we have concrete evidence of the existence o…"

— Nelson Mandela

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