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“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”

“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

“Thou liar of the first magnitude.”

“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”

“Eternity was in that moment.”

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"None of the gods philosophizes," Plato has Diotima say in the Symposium : "nor do fools; for that is what is so bad about ignorance — that you think you know enough." "Who, then, O Diotima, I asked, a…"

— Josef Pieper

Philosophy1907–1977

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"The institute 's researchers laid the foundation for its success by daring to brave the challenges they faced and learning from their failures."

— Tsai Ing-wen

Politics1956

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"My dislike of the Jews is that which our forefathers had of them: I dislike them as insolent ruffians, who mock the religion and morality of Christians; I dislike them as people that never work, and f…"

— William Cobbett

Politics1763–1835

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"To show you how cosmically irrelevant the Warren Report is for the most part … one of the exhibits is classified in the front as, 'A Study of the Teeth of Jack Ruby's Mother.' Even if Jack Ruby had in…"

— Jim Garrison

Law1921–1992

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