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“The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
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“I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.”
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“That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.”
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“Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.”
Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.18, Oneworld Publications
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“The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.”
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“Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.”
Source : Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1834). “Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators: Phillips, Curran and Grattan, to which is Added the Powerful Appeal of Robert Emmett, at the Close of His Trial for High Treason”, p.369
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“Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.”
Source : Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.113
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“We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.”
