"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

Marquis De Vauvenargues, French Philosopher

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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Writer

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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

"To possess taste, one must have some soul."

"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."