"Part of being a coward is wanting security."

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“We learn only to ask more questions.”

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“The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”

“I had to grin. Morris was shocked and horrified. I'd shown him a brand new sin.”

“Sex was a game nobody lost.”

“Anyone who says human nature can't be changed is out of his head. To make it stick, he's got to define human nature—and he can't.”

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"Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath."

— Yitzhak Shamir

Politics1915–2012

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"When the war came we were shocked to find, as Mr. Thorson, the then Minister of National War Services said, that forty-six per cent of the men called were rejected because that depression had left phy…"

— Tommy Douglas

Politics1904–1986

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"Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his creator, for he is entirely a dependent being...This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself…"

— William Blackstone

Politics1723–1780

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— Henry James

Literature1843–1916

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