"Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state."

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"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

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"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

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"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."

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"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."

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"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

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"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."

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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Politicians look for interests not people."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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