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"An intellectual hatred is the worst."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty."
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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."


"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."


"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."


"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
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