“Life — the way it really is — is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.”
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Even savage animals can agree among themselves. -Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. -Burke, Edmund
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized. -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I’m as pure as the driven slush. -Bankhead, Tallulah
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In art as in love, instinct is enough. -France, Anatole
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"Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only dec" – Rosa Luxemburg
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. -Joan Didion
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