"We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?"

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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— Dennis Prager

Politics1948

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"Admit your love for homosexuals."

— Jair Bolsonaro

Politics1955–2019

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"A man's nature is best perceived in privateness, for there is no affectation; in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him. The…"

— Francis Bacon

Literature1909–1992

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"The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards ju…"

— Nadine Gordimer

Literature1923–2014

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