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"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins."
Laughter
"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
History
"Genius is the talent of a person who is dead."
Talent
"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
People
"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
Life
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
Government
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
Love
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
Religion
"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
Man
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