"Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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"I like the first line to be funny right away. "When I was a kid, and they invented the Pop Tart, the back of my head blew right off!" And that got the whole thing started: that a specific part of my h…"

— Jerry Seinfeld

Entertainment1954

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"Even the asexual has a deviation - his asexuality. It is far more abnormal to have a lack of sexual desire than it is to be sexually promiscuous. However, if a Satanist chooses sexual sublimination ab…"

— Anton LaVey

Literature1930–1997

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"When I think of those four terrible years and I think of the 7,000,000 of young men who were cut off in their prime, the 13,000,000 who were maimed and mutilated, the misery and the suffering of the m…"

— Neville Chamberlain

Politics1939–2018

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"Where the forms of civil, religious and political liberty still exist, they must be strengthened and given new power over the hearts as well as over the minds of men. Faith must not be lost, and coura…"

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Literature1862–1947

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