"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."

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"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

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"Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for."

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"What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane."

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

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"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

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"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."

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"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."

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"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."

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"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."

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"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."

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"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."

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