"God is only a great imaginative experience."

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“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

“Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.”

“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

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Literature1944

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— Alex Haley

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"Within my first meeting when I proposed to introduce the flat tax in Estonia they looked on me as I am a little bit crazy. And asked “do you know something on the economy?” and I answer “economically,…"

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Politics1960

#knowledge

"I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young — alas, she never wrote a word... Now my belief is th…"

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Literature1882–1941

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