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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
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"Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction."

"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."

"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

"He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother's consecrated grave."

"It was like the beginning of the end of the world."

"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."

"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."

"To Kalist, Baumauer's just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire."

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."

"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."

"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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