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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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