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All Quotes Collection
"I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush."
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"Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case."
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"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."
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"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation."
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
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"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."
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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live."
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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
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"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
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"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."
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"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
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"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."
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"The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection."
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"Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated."
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"We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean."
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"The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous."
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"The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years."
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"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation."
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"Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal."
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"Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body."
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"ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government."
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"They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two."
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