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"Benevolence is often very peremptory."
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"I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?""Lord."I rolled my eyes.He shrugged. "It's short."
"You are a lawmaker in your own right."
"God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness."
"Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority."
"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that 'ours' is correct; nor do 'we' have the time to make you correct as well."
"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
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"What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you."
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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