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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets."
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"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."
Truth
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
Man
"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
God
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
People
"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."
Desire
"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
Power
"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices."
Society
"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers."
Love
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
Certainty
"Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine."
Man
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