It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Alan Alda
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
William J. Durant
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The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
Andrea Dworkin
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.
Herbert Hoover
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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Adm William Halsey
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Karl Marx
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro
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History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.
Otto Von Bismark
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