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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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It's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
- Erna Bombeck

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The world’s as ugly, ay, as sin,
And almost as delightful.
- Frederick Locker-Lampson

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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman

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Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think.
- Alfred Austin

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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling

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All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
- Arnold Bennett

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The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy

Who did it

I know I'm going out on a limb here, but this is clearly the guys whose picture several media have printed in a scrambled version. The name is known in the sphere of journalists. So here he is, the killer of an as yet unknown number of people through a bombing in downtown Oslo and a massacre at the Labor Party Youth summer camp ut Utøya.

May he be given a swift and fair trial, followed by a swift and fair hanging.

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen

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There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.
- Dan Bennett

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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor

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Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller

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Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.
- Ethan Allen

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If all the world’s economists were laid end to end, we wouldn’t reach a conclusion.
- William Baumol

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How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
- Marcus Aurelius

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The moment you're born you're done for.
- Arnold Bennet

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It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
- Chinese Proverb