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-Stephen Douglas on Abraham Lincoln

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The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-Ian Fleming

Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.

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-Lord Acton

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

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-David Brinkley

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

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-Paul Valéry

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

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-George Orwell

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

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-Lord Acton

If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.

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-Max Brooks

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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-Lord Acton

A solution shall not another problem create.

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-Tom Burtonwood