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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."

"The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place."

"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

"The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time."

"Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice."

"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."

"A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction."
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