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You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."


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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.



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If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.



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For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.



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We are the hero of our own story.



Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.





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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.




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