"Writing is turning one's worst moments into money."

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“On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.”

“The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.”

“Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”

“I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

“When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.”

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"I’ve told Rudy that as long as he returns my phone calls, I’m here to stay. The day he doesn’t, I’m gone."

— Howard Safir

Politics1942–2023

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"We need to start thinking about a new ethno-state that we would want to be a part of. This is not going to happen in the next election or in the next 10 years probably, but something in the future tha…"

— Richard B. Spencer

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"We celebrate the past to awaken the future."

— John F. Kennedy

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"Right now alternative energy is still treated as a supplement rather than a substitute for fossil fuels within the as presently constituted. The rapid growth of alternative energy should not therefore…"

— John Bellamy Foster

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