"There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer."

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"There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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"Never give a good politician time to pray."

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"Democracy passes into despotism."

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"Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for."

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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."

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"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."

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"We move between two darknesses."

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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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"Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it."

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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

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"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."

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"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."

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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."

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"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."

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