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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

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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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
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
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Forever Freedom Hate Honesty Myself Strong
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Food Politics Promise
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right

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