"That was very wrong... I have had God's forgiveness for it."

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“She might be violent.”

“The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it.”

“Mrs Thomas has promised me her typewriter, I'll take it now.”

“I don't want money. What use is it?”

“You do realise, doctor, that you have killed her?”

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"The language of priorities is the religion of socialism."

— Aneurin Bevan

Politics1897–1960

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"We can’t rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God."

— Georges Bataille

Literature1897–1962

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"It is neither possible nor desirable to make all men think alike. Variety is the very basis of harmony; and, in the sphere of ecclesiastical experience, oneness of feeling is vastly preferable to unan…"

— John McClellan Holmes

Politics1834–1911

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