"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

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“The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.”
“I kind of wish people didnâ€™t know who I am, that I could just lie, say Iâ€™m a speechwriter for Obama. This is what I said before Twilight. And then Obama came along and picked up all these young writers. I found out this guy, Jon Favreau â€” whoâ€™s not the actor Jon Favreau â€” is writing for him. And I was like, Wow, I wonder if the people who thought I was bullshitting at the time are like, â€˜Oh my god. That guy! That kid who was drunk in some bar actually wrote the health care bill!â€™”
“The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.22, New Directions Publishing
“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”
“Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.”
“I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.”
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”
“Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.”

Source : "The Left Doesn't Like Darwin Either". vdare.com, August 7, 2005.

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