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“I'm not competent to judge. But no doubt he was a great man.”

“We'll continue tomorrow — if I live.”

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“Some French socialist said that private property was theft … I say that private property is a nuisance.”

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“Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.”

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— Doug Stanhope

Entertainment1967

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"Known for centuries, a tenet of classical liberalism, the pacific nature of democracy has become largely forgotten or ignored in the last half-century. That democracy is inherently peaceful is now pro…"

— Rudolph Rummel

Science1932–2014

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"First of all, when you enter a conservatory, it’s already too late. The kind of connection that has to be made with an instrument, be it a piano, strings, a wind instrument, it really has to start muc…"

— Leon Fleisher

Music1928–2020

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"What is the next great lesson of the war? It is that if Britain has to be thoroughly equipped to meet any emergencies of either war or peace it must take a more constant and a more intelligent interes…"

— David Lloyd George

Politics1863–1945

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