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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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Freedom Funny Limitation Oneself Politics
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Differences Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Men Pursue
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Freedom Honor Men Order Politics
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Citizenship Liberty Lost People War
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman

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