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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
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
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
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
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
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
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Greatness Help Intelligence Lost Money Oneself People Search World
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World

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