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    An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

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    Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?

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    Are we not all desperate one way or another?

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    A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

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    But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

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    Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

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    Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

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    Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

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    Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

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    Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

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    Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

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    'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

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    Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

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    I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

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    I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

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    I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

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    I converse with my dog through ESP

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    If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.

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    If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

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    I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

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    I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

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    I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

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    I have been the victim of heartless malice.

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    I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

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    I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

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    I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

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    I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

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    I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

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    In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

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    I often reread books I have written

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    I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

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    It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

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    It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

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    It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

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    I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

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    I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

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    I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

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    Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

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    Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!

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    Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

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    Money? I lost all taste for it.

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    My dreams are all follies.

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    My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

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    My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

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    No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

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    Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

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    One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

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    One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

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    People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

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    People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.