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An absurd problem came to the surface: 'How could God permit that [crucifixion of Jesus Christ]!' The deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a sacrifice. The sacrifice for guilt, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
- Ogden Nash

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert Hutchins

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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
- Johnny Carson

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
- Erich Fromm

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My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a Democrat in the family.
- Emo Phillips

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
- William Pitt

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I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
- Voltarine de Cleyre

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People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
- Cullen Hightower

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot

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The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
- Bill Vaughn

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
-Al Capp

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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle

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Festina lente
[Hasten slowly]
- Suetonius

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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universe, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and that he becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
- Robert Heinlein

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, 'as pretty as an airport.'
- Douglas Adams

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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly.
- Teddy Roosevelt

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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
- Aesop

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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
- Winston Churchill

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Harry Fosdick

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The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
- F.A. Hayek

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire

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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
- Joe Moore

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. The people you can bravo and hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
- Bette Davis

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Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
- Lewis S. Feuer

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
- John Galsworthy

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In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
- Thomas Jefferson

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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
- Robert Heinlein

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill

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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"