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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
"Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism 'thinking' (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, 'with me' or 'against me, ' and most of the time you'll be wrong."
"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."
"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."
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"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."
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