"lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue."

-- Maximilien Robespierre

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“Every disadvantage has its advantage.”

Source : "They Said It: Johan Cruyff". www.fifa.com. April 25, 2014.
“Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.”
“I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.”
“Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.”
“Success is a project that's always under construction.”
“I never regretted what I turned down.”
“The law is an opinion with a gun.”
“I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.”

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