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"And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best."

"Two societies confronting each other with conflicting universes will both develop conceptual machineries designed to maintain their respective universes. From the point of view of intrinsic plausibili…"

"When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bibl…"

"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."

"She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no use — afther a month or two, th'wondher of a woman wears off."

"1989 Audio Interview with Charles Fecher about H.L. Mencken - RealAudio"

"A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer."

"The scale and effectiveness of conversions by force are clearly detailed in al-Kufi's Chachnama , Utbi's Tarikh-i-Yamini Hasan Nizami's Taj-ul-Maasir and Minhaj Siraj's. Tabqat-i-Nasiri . All Muslim c…"

"Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything."

"1979 Milton Friedman Interview with Phil Donahue"

"Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made t…"

"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use."

"Here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that Love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and desp…"

"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else."

"This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathise with my distresses, but then it will not laugh at them, an…"

"You married an angel and a devil mixed together there, mrs. Horowitz."

"The problems with framing it in terms of race is not that it is inaccurate, it absolutely is effective…but the minute you raise race, you derail the conversation and it becomes possible to dismiss thi…"

"Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform..."

"Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next."

"The feelings and images aroused by the visible world are very difficult to express or are perhaps inexpressible with words because they are determined by forms, colors, space and light."