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"The disciplined rule our world."

"Challenge authority, the authority of your own rational convictions."

"Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm."

"Knowledge imparts a sense of authority. It will help you stand out and give you an edge over your competition."

"If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and sell tickets to the Kingdom of that God. Thus emerged all the pompous lies about the extraterrestrial Kingdom of God or Heaven."
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"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State."

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."
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