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Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence the basic fact is the occupation.
Uri Avnery
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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag
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We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell
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Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.
Richard Bach
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So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.
Eduard Hanslick
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Mark Twain
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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
Mark Twain
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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Mark Twain
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True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
Oscar Wilde
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
Oscar Wilde
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When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Pleasure is a thief to business.
Daniel Defoe
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Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.
Noam Chomsky
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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.
Leo Tolstoy
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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
Ivan Turgenev
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Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There are no new ideas about female education.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
Ivan Turgenev
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
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I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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