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"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
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"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."
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"Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins."
Laughter
"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
Life
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
Religion
"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
People
"Genius is the talent of a person who is dead."
Talent
"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
Man
"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
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
Government
"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
History
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