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“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

“Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.”

“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

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"I've got quite a thick skin... but I don't think we should just accept threats of rape or shootings"

— Leanne Wood

Politics1971

#justice

"There is a test point about you somewhere. Perhaps it is pride; you cannot bear an affront; you will not confess a fault. Perhaps it is personal vanity, ready to sacrifice every thing to display. Perh…"

— Frederic Dan Huntington

Literature1819–1904

#justice

"By far the most revolutionary aspect of this new position would be who could hold it. The short answer: just about anyone. By placing no explicit race, gender, or religious requirements on the preside…"

— Jon Stewart

Entertainment1989

#justice