"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly."

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“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”

“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”

“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”

“The sin is in our thoughts.”

“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”

“The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.”

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"Let me remind you that Qur’an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of ‘signs’, S-I-G-N-S i.e. a book of ayaats. The Qur’an contains more than 6000 ayaats that is ‘signs’ out of which m…"

— Zakir Naik

Politics1965

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"Authority is never without hate."

— Euripides

Literature-480–-406

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"I would like to stress, that if we want to strengthen strategic stability, we will require an equal dialogue with mutual consideration of each other’s interests. It is necessary to revive the channels…"

— Anatoly Antonov

1936

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"Oklahoma is laid back and rather beautiful, with rolling brown hills not unlike the ones in California. The Pershing missiles, on the other hand, were not beautiful. They were horrible weapons of war …"

— Robert B. Laughlin

Science1950

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