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“There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.”
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“When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?”
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“Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”
Source : Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium
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“Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?”
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“The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
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“It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.”
Source : Deborah Jowitt (1985). “The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews 1976-83”, Boston : D.R. Godine
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“Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.”
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“There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.”
