The purpose of thought is to eliminate the contingent - Hegel
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Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels - Samuel Johnson
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The only dream worth having, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you are dead.
- Arundhati Roy
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"My idea of our civilization is that it is a shabby poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meanness, and hypocrisies. As for the word, I hate the sound of it, for it conveys a lie; and as for the thing itself, I wish it was in hell, where it belongs."
- Mark Twain
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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What lies between us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
