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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Age Friendship Remember Yourself
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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Beginning Fight Freedom Human Law Oppression Stop Time
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
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
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
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
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare

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