Category: writer
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James Baldwin
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
Albert Camus
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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin
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God always strives together with those who strive.
Aeschylus
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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts