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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
1929-2007
Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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Thurgood Marshall
American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
1908-1993
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
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Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
1694-1773
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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Seneca
Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright
5 BC - 65 A.D.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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