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“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”

“I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.”

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"Brexit was a chilling example of how truly intolerant and despicable the left in this country are. I know people whose own parents almost disowned them because they voted leave. I have probably receiv…"

— Paul Joseph Watson

Journalism1982

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"The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it."

— Chester A. Arthur

Politics1829–1886

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"All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice-that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity."

— Mikhail Bakunin

Philosophy1764–1837

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"Pig, n. An animal closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig."

— Ambrose Bierce

Literature1842–1914

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