"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."

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"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."

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"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

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"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

John Green, American Author

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"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

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"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

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"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

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"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."

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"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."

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"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."

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"Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy, those who had anything united in common terror."

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"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."

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"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

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"Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment."

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"Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words."

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"I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice."

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