"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."

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“They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.”

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“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”

“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”

“He will have true glory who despises it.”

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— Sam Kinison

Entertainment1953–1992

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"“I’ve been on my own before, Mather.” And I hadn’t been happy a moment. But happiness is a fleeting creature. It’s no birthright. Not anything I expect but something I accept when I tumble into it. Me…"

— Glen Cook

Literature1944

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"he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficu…"

— José Ortega y Gasset

Philosophy1883–1955

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"My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszów. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. Madam Deputy Speaker, my grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli …"

— Gerald Kaufman

Politics1930–2017

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