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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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"Our aadivasi sisters and brothers have played a paramount role in the freedom struggle. For hundreds of years, people across villages of the country kept alive the flame of sacrifices for attaining independence. They left no stone unturned in helping India attain freedom."
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"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy."
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"Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new."
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"I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies."
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"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
Politics
"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob."
Practice
"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
History
"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
Job
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
Money
"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
Being
"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
People
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
Life
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
Self
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