"The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well."

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“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

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"All revolutions devour their own children."

— Ernst Röhm

Military1887–1934

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"Projected upon the natural world... is the idea of privilege. ...Ever since the invention of civilization, there have been privileged classes... some groups that oppress others and that work to mainta…"

— Carl Sagan

Science1934–1996

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"Italy's youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but that's because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages."

— Jeremy Clarkson

Journalism1960

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"For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This …"

— Robert F. Kennedy

Politics1925–1968

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