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In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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Labour is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other.
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
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My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
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