"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"No man may make another free."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"

Peter Jennings, Canadian Journalist

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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."

Voltaire, French Writer

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Kate Millett, American Activist

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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

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