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"Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own."
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"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."
"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."
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"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."
"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."
"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."
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"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."
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"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."
"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."
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