"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."

Society, Conquest, Military, Valor, World

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"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."

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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

John Green, American Author

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

John Green, American Author

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"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."

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"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."

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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."

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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."

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"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

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"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."

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"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

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"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."

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"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

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